IT Course for Dyslexic People

Something which may be of interest:

Manchester Metropolitan University have teamed up with Manchester Dyslexic Self Help Group to produce a free course teaching dyslexics some basic IT skills. The course starts in January, but should be booked as soon as possible to guarantee places.

More details can be found on this flier: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1aWoCJw0ptPazdrSjVXX0ZuSlE/edit?usp=sharing

Consumer Voices Event

We were sent this as an event for you to potentially advertise to your clients, but also that you may want to attend in both your capacity as advisers, but also to share your knowledge/insight of your clients' consumer issues.

The aim of the event is to get as many people along as possible to share their views on how they'd like to see products/ services improved. It's being organised by the Consumer Unit at BSI - a group of consumers that represent consumer views to standard developers/ regulators in the UK and Europe to make sure that new standards and regulation tackle real issues faced by real people.

This is the flier: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1aWoCJw0ptPNWZfbzdzYlRKN1U/edit?usp=sharing

'Who Benefits' Campaign

Many of you may already have seen/signed up to this but if not, please see below:

http://www.whobenefits.org.uk/page/content/front

Early Network Forum notes

The notes from the Early Network Forum meeting on Wednesday 13th November are linked below; thank you to all who attended.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1aWoCJw0ptPNUVWTzFyMFRxUTg/edit?usp=sharing

If you have anything you wish to add, or contact details of agencies you feel should be involved, please contact Rosi Hunter on rosi.hunter@manchestercab.org

Real Life Reform

A piece of research is being done into the impact of welfare reform on real families. The study will follow 100 families at regular intervals until 2015, and is being carried out by seven Registered Housing Providers, the Northern Housing Consortium and York University. This is the first report, and is really interesting - well worth a look.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1aWoCJw0ptPZVYxa1JNQVZEZUk/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome!

Welcome to the News and Forum site for the Manchester Advice Alliance Adviser Forum. The site hopes to keep you up-to-date with news from the advice sector which is particularly relevant to Manchester, as well as offering you a message board where you can discuss any struggles you're having in supporting your clients, discuss the impact of welfare reform in your area/client group, share knowledge, and generally offer or receive support.

We also hope to keep the news feed updated with opportunities for advisers, agencies and the sector in general, such as funding opportunities or public consultations which you can feed into.

If you have anything you think needs to be added to the News Feed, or have any questions about Forum Meetings (starting from January 2014), please contact:

Rosi Hunter
Information & Engagement Officer, Manchester Advice Alliance
0161 830 2073
rosi.hunter@manchestercab.org