Ed Pybus has been providing expert advice on social security for almost two decades. He began as a volunteer at Portobello Citizens Advice Bureau before working at bureaux in Fife and Skye and Lochalsh. He’s worked as a welfare rights worker at Child Poverty Action Group, providing expert advice and training and was one of the authors of CPAG’s Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits handbook. He’s provided advice to the Scottish Government as a member of the Disability and Carer’s Benefits Expert Advisory Group, the Minimum Income Guarantee Steering group and the Affordable Housing working group.

He is currently an independent policy consultant with an interest in social security as well as poverty, housing, childcare, environmental justice, and community ownership. He is Chair of the Scottish Commission on Social Security.  He and his family are tenants on a woodland croft in Argyll.