To view the Event Programme for our recent Social Policy Open Day, click the below link.
SPOD Event Programme 11th September 2007.pdf
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Campaigning for Change
CAB is not just an advice agency. We collect evidence from our clients to highlight recurring problems and campaign for change.
In Hillingdon a wide range of pressing social policy issues are brought to our attention by local people who come to us for assistance. In the course of 2003-4 we sent 273 Bureau Evidence Forms to Citizens Advice for input into national campaigning as a result of our casework for clients.
Our evidence on the problems facing people in Hillingdon has been included in a number of Citizens Advice Evidence Reports to MPs and Government.
These enable the CAB service to campaign both locally and nationally for improvements in services and in the law by:
- influencing the Government when they are planning new laws
- highlighting issues to MPs, councillors and other policy makers
- talking to local councils about their services
- discussing problems with companies to persuade them to improve their services
- running local campaigns such as calling for more NHS dentists, better temporary housing or banking facilities.
Successful campaigns have resulted in the introduction of rent deposit schemes, better housing benefit services and action from Ofgem to fine a major fuel supplier and make it improve its services.
By solving problems in this way, the CAB service helps many more people in addition to those who come for advice and assistance on an individual basis.