Deborah Padfield has been a Citizens Advice benefits adviser, trainer and supervisor in Cambridge, Peterborough and north Essex, where she still works. In the past she lived and worked in London's East End. She has considerable experience of mental illness and is on the steering committee of The Cambridge Commons.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiving under the benefits regime: Part 1 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line – a part of Britain...
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Published in: Shine A LightLegal aid reform proposals: immoral, inefficient and anti-democraticDeborah Padfield, a Citizens Advice Bureau specialist adviser, offers a systematic breakdown of the potentially...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCoping with cuts: the view from a Citizens Advice Bureau
We are not all in this together. Benefit changes and service cuts will have cumulative and often profoundly...