CPAG ANNUAL RIGHTS CONFERENCE

The Welfare State: 60 years on

Thursday 4 September 2008, 10.00am-4.30pm

The Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA

This conference will mark the 60th birthday of the Welfare State. There will be workshops covering the latest changes in welfare reform and a panel discussion, which will focus on what policies we need to address the giants: poverty; employment; housing; education; health and any new giants of today.

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Keynote speaker

Fran Bennett: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy & Social Work, University of Oxford

Workshop sessions

• Lone Parents & welfare reform
• Employment and support allowance
• Migration, covering right to reside and proposed immigration law changes
• Welfare Reform Green Paper
• Enforcing rights

Panel members

• Kim Catcheside: Social Affairs Correspondent, BBC News (Chair)
• Duleep Allirajah: Policy Manager, Macmillan Cancer Relief
• Richard Exell: Senior Policy Officer, Trade Union Congress
• Kate Green: CEO, Child Poverty Action Group
• Sharon Wright: Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling

Comments from feedback for CPAG conference 2007:

• ‘Felt welcomed and included. Interesting ideas – got me thinking about my own values and how to assist clients’
• ‘Really interesting, informative & thought provoking – well worth the long trip!’
• ‘It was all useful – I liked the mix of detailed workshops with the wider thinking’

Fees
Inclusive of lunch
Lawyers/Statutory Organisations £105
Voluntary Organisations £90

For further information contact
Training Department
CPAG
94 White Lion Street
London N1 9PF

Fax: 020 7837 6414
Phone: 020 7812 5228/5217
Email: jallen@cpag.org.co.uk