SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE PRESS NOTICE
Date: January 2010
APPOINTMENT OF NICOLA SMITH THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SSAC)
The Social Security Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, has appointed Ms Nicola Smith, as a member of the SSAC for a term of three years from 1st January 2010.
Nicola Smith is a Senior Policy Officer in the Economic and Social Affairs Department of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) where she covers a range of labour market and social welfare policy. Nicola was previously responsible for the coordination of the work of the TUC’s Commission on Vulnerable Employment. Prior to joining the TUC, she was employed as a Principal Researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social Exclusion, where she managed a range of research focusing on welfare-to-work and anti-poverty policy. Nicola has also held research and policy posts at the Children and Young People’s Unit within the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), and at Barnardo’s Policy and Research Unit.