Scottish
Campaign on Welfare Reform
CPAG in Scotland
along with Citizens Advice Scotland, Poverty Alliance and Capability
is coordinating a Scottish Campaign on Welfare Reform. The campaign
is lobbying Scottish MPs on three areas of particular concern in
the Government’s Welfare Reform green paper:
- Compulsion
of individuals
- Adequacy
of benefit levels
- Resources
available for reform
To date nearly
forty organisations including Oxfam, Barnardos, Children 1st, the
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Unison, the STUC and
Scottish church groups have signed up. This
diverse coalition has sent a letter to all Scottish MPs detailing
the concerns.
In addition
a postcard (view
postcard 975 KB pdf file) campaign has been launched highlighting
key concerns about the proposals and urging individuals to use the
postcard to contact their MPs. CPAG supporters in Scotland can contact
Betty Kelly on 0141 552 3303 for copies of the postcard.
Green Paper ‘In work, better off’
Scottish
Campaign on Welfare Reform Press Releases
Scottish
Campaign on Welfare Reform Media Coverage
The Campaign
has received extensive media coverage on Scottish television, radio
and in national, local and specialist press. See for example:
For more information
on the Government's Welfare Reform green paper see www.cpag.org.uk/welfarereform/
For more details
on the Scottish Campaign contact:
John Dickie,
Head of CPAG in Scotland,
jdickie@cpagscotland.org.uk
or telephone 0141 552 3656
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