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Goodbye
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Social policy coordinator, CAB, Basingstoke
Total Posts: 504
Joined: 16 June 2010
Dear welfs
I feel the time has come to hang up my CPAG book (well, actually, it belongs to the Bureau). Since I was dragooned into the role of Head of Welfare Law when lecturing in 1993, I have clocked up 7 years as a law lecturer. 14 years as a tribunal judge, and 9 years as a member of an expert advisory committee. Now all that is over and I’m just another CAB volunteer with no entree into the inner world of welfare.
And I’m tired of it. I have seen jobseeker’s allowance take over from unemployment benefit, incapacity benefit from sickness and invalidity benefits, and then ESA, CTC and WTC from working families’ tax credit; and looking further back supplementary benefit giving way to income support. I’ve watched over the main tranches of primary and secondary legislation for universal credit and PIP. So I am moving into other fields while I can still remember that that there is a vast area of law outside social security.
It’s been nice knowing you.
Brigid Campbell
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The National Autistic Society, Welfare Rights, Nottingham
Total Posts: 161
Joined: 13 January 2011
Farewell Ariadne, you will be missed!
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Welfare rights officer - Dunedin Canmore Housing Association
Total Posts: 274
Joined: 25 June 2010
It’s been nice ‘knowing’ you. What will we do without you to answer all those trust questions?
Enjoy whatever you go on to do. Smell some flowers perhaps?
Mairi
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Advisor - Wirral Welfare Rights Unit, Birkenhead
Total Posts: 472
Joined: 18 June 2010
Best wishes for the future and thanks for your many very helpful posts on this site over the years. You will be sorely missed by the many people who value your opinion
Brian
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Deputy Manager, Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit
Total Posts: 1711
Joined: 16 June 2010
We’ll miss you Ariadne (or Brigid- we finally find out your real name just as you ride off into the sunset!)
What will we do when we have a trust fund issue in future?
Good Luck with whatever you do in the future.
I’m sorry to hear this; you will be missed.
hi ‘ariadne’
thank you so much for all your valued contributions to rightsnet .. BIG good luck and stuff for whatever comes next ..
cheers ... shawn
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Welfare rights worker - Oxford Community Work Agency
Total Posts: 1659
Joined: 18 June 2010
(tongue of cheek) thats still no excuse for missing the CitHA WR meeting next Wed!
Will you remain a member of the SSAC?
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Social policy coordinator, CAB, Basingstoke
Total Posts: 504
Joined: 16 June 2010
Thanks for all the kind comments.
To answer Peter’s question, my appointment to SSAC came to a (non-renewable) end on 31 January - that was the 9 years I referred to.
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Operations & Advice Manager - Citizens Advice Taunton
Total Posts: 427
Joined: 28 June 2010
A sad day for social security, you will be missed.
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Welfare rights officer - Salford Welfare Rights Service
Total Posts: 211
Joined: 16 June 2010
A big loss to us who’ve learnt a lot from your posts on here.
All best with what you do next.
Thanks for all of your contributions over the years Brigid, and wishing you a happy time away from the world of welfare, best of luck.
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Mental health & welfare rights service - Wolverhampton City Council
Total Posts: 2262
Joined: 15 October 2012
You’ve been a great help for many moons and the board -as well as the jurisdiction- will be a lesser place for your absence.
Good luck for whatever you choose for the future.
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Welfare rights adviser - Sefton Council, Liverpool
Total Posts: 3135
Joined: 16 June 2010
Youe expertise will be sorely missed. Go in peace.
ariadne has sent the attached through as a gift to you all .....
File Attachments
- basic equity and trusts for welfare lawyers.doc (File Size: 46KB - Downloads: 3827)
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Welfare Benefits Advisory Officer, Elmbridge Housing Trust, Surrey
Total Posts: 29
Joined: 16 June 2010
We’ll miss you. All the best in wherever life takes you from here.
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Social policy coordinator, CAB, Basingstoke
Total Posts: 504
Joined: 16 June 2010
By the way, sorry about the typos. Funny how you only notice them too late. I think you should still be able to work out what I meant.
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Solicitor, CMH solicitors, Tyne And Wear
Total Posts: 186
Joined: 17 June 2010
sorry to see you go Ariadne (Brigid); i’m afraid i certainly can’t replace your Trust knowledge ....although i hope i can recognize one when i see one!
Claire
now at BHP Law…
Hear hear to all the previous comments, a top source of info. as and when was needed, and I can only wish you all the best for whatever the future holds ...
Pete
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Welfare Rights Author, Trainer & Consultant
Total Posts: 443
Joined: 16 June 2010
Brigid - we have worked together in the past and your combined mainstream legal knowledge and knowledge of social security law is outstanding and the welfare rights field will be much the poorer for your departure - especially when welfare rights advisers are going to have to increasingly look at legal solutions outside social security law to challenge some of the dreadful things going on in the benefts system.
Ariadne,Thanks for all the advice over the years, you will be very much missed!
Pete.