Mon 07-Jan-08 11:49 AM by shawn

Chaired by Gary Vaux, Head of Advice at Hertfordshire County Council, our conference will take place at the Met Hotel, Kings Street, Leeds on 22 January 2008.

Speakers include –

• John Zebedee, Author and writer – 'Local Housing Allowance; radical reform or just another transitional protection scheme?'
  
  
• Phil Bartlett, the DWP's ESA Programme Director - 'The introduction of ESA'
  
  
• Commissioner Edward Jacobs – 'Right to reside and other appeal 'hot topics''
  
  
• Paul Stagg, Chambers of Edward Faulks QC – 'Challenging Tax credits overpayment decisions; bankruptcy and social security overpayments'
  
  
• Alan Markey, Head of Welfare Benefits, Specialist Support, Citizens Advice – 'The Welfare Reform agenda'

To be followed by an Hbinfo panel discussion