Ms Kay Brereton, QSM, for services to the welfare of beneficiaries
Kay Brereton is the manager of the Beneficiaries and Unwaged Workers Trust in Nelson. She is a member of the National Beneficiary Advocacy Consultative Group, which meets with the Ministry of Social Development to discuss issues in the welfare system, and the Group’s Co-Convenor for the Wellington Peoples Centre. She is a member of several working groups with Government Ministries. She was a member of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group in 2018. Ms Brereton was contracted by Southland Beneficiaries and Community Rights Centre to deliver benefit advocacy training and to deliver a Remote Advocacy Service Trial for trespassed clients.