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Social Security information - index Social Security links to resources on the Internet - focused on the Charter Social Security links to resources on the Internet - others (regional, academic, etc)

Social Security links to resources on the Internet - others (regional, academic, etc)

This is a maintained list of Internet sources related to, but not within, the scope of the uk.gov.social-security newsgroup. (There are lots more links, organised mainly by the key discussion topics for the newsgroup, defined by its charter).

General sources
Ferret Information Systems	Britain's largest supplier of advisory systems in the field of welfare benefits and related law.
Ferret Information Systems - links to legislation	Ferret's links to Social Security and Associated Legislation.
Lisson Grove Benefits Program - Benefits Information Pages	Lisson Grove Benefits Program produces computer programs to help advisers calculate entitlement to UK social security benefits and payments due under the child support formula. This link is to their Topic Index for benefits (etc) information.
National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux The Citizens Advice Bureaux Directory Search Citizens Advice Bureaux websites	The Citizens Advice Bureau Service offers free, confidential, impartial and independent advice. From its origins in 1939 as an emergency service during World War II, it has evolved into a professional national agency. There are 2,000 CAB outlets in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each CAB is an independent charity, relying on funding from the local authority and from local business, charitable trusts and individual donations.
Disability Rights Commission	The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body set up by the Government to help secure civil rights for disabled people
Age Concern England	Age Concern cares about all older people and believes later life should be fulfilling and enjoyable.
yourable.com	Information, Products and Services for the Disabled Community.
Gingerbread	Gingerbread is the leading support organisation for lone parent families in England and Wales. Gingerbread was started 31 years ago and is a registered charity maintained by lone parents.
RightsNet	The welfare rights website for advice workers - provides support and information about welfare rights to advice workers.
gowrings mobility	Gowrings Mobility is a British company and Europe's leading manufacturer of wheelchair accessible cars and people-carriers.
Abilityonline your Disability Information, News and Views Web Site
Just Ask! Community Legal Service	Just Ask! is the website of the Community Legal Service. The first port of call for legal help and information in England and Wales.
The Blue Badge Scheme Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions	The Blue Badge Scheme (administered by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions) provides a national arrangement of parking concessions for people with severe walking difficulties who travel either as drivers or passengers.
Carers National Association	Carers UK is the national voice of carers in the UK.
Mobility Information Service Frequently Asked Mobility Questions	The Mobility Information Service was founded by the late David Griffiths MBE in 1979, to provide advice and guidance for people with mobility restrictive disabilities.
Parliament
Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament.
Members, Ministers and Committees
Select committees which are important for Social Security	Alphabetical index to the home pages of individual Select Committees of the House of Commons and Joint Committees of both Houses of Parliament. Publications of the Work and Pensions Select Committee Publications of the Social Security Select Committee (pre 2001-2002 session).
Press notices for select committees which are important for Social Security	Work and Pensions Select Committee Press Notices Social Security Committee Press Notices (pre 2001-2002 session).
House of Commons Library Research Papers 2001	Typically, when a Bill on some complex topic is before Parliament, the House of Commons Library researchers will publish a paper/report describing the topic to help MPs "get up to speed". These are available to download in PDF format. (It is possible to get to earlier years from this link).
Regional (but often providing more general information)
One Parent Families Scotland	One Parent Families Scotland has been working since 1944 to help lone parents. They are a national voluntary organisation, registered as a charity. Their members include individual lone parents, various organisations working with lone parents and others who just simply want to support the cause of lone parents.
Birmingham Disablity Resource Centre	Birmingham Disability Resource Centre was the brainchild of a local disability rights organisation the Birmingham Disability Rights Group. As an organisation controlled by disabled people, they argued that disabled peoples experience of discrimination and social inequality often resulted in the denial of the opportunity and right of disabled people to speak on their own behalf and take their own decisions.
Community Care In Britain
London Advice Services Alliance	An expert resource for advisors.
Merton Unemployed Workers Centre	The Centre is a voluntary not-for-profit organisation which provides free advice and representation for benefits and tax credits. Includes information on: Incapacity Benefit & Incapacity Benefit Tips; Working Families Tax Credit & Disabled Persons Tax Credit; Housing Benefit; & Benefit Rates).
Academia
Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University	CRSPs research has four main themes: poverty and social exclusion; work and welfare trajectories; policy evaluation; and the administration and delivery of welfare services.
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex	It specialises in the production and analysis of longitudinal data - evidence which tracks changes in the lives of the same individuals over time. The key advantage of longitudinal data over snapshot or single moment in time information is that it allows researchers to analyse the dynamic links between individuals life events, living and employment conditions, behaviour and values over the lifecycle.
Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York	The Unit has an international reputation for excellence in research in key areas of social policy, including health and social care, and social security and employment.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York	The Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York contains three research units, all of which are also part of the Institute for Research Into the Social Sciences (IRISS) within the University: The Social Policy Research Unit; The Centre for Housing Policy; The Social Work Research and Development Unit.
Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath	The research is divided into three main areas: Work, family and welfare: new social divisions and social exclusion The transformation of the welfare state: delivering services in new welfare states European and Global Social Policy
Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge
Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside	At undergraduate level it provides the subjects of Criminology, International Relations, Politics and Social Policy; it provides taught postgraduate courses in Citizenship, Housing, Criminology and Social Policy and supervision for MPhil and PhD research degrees in its subjects.

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