Responding to today’s budget announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liz Bayram, Chief Executive of AdviceUK said:   “We are pleased to see the punishing two-child benefit cap lifted – a sign of the Government listening to our members and others in the advice sector. However, the Government needs to go further to tackle poverty by committing to no further damaging cuts to welfare and by funding the advice sector as a key […]

AdviceUK, the UK’s largest network of independent advice services, urges the Government to focus on two priorities in the forthcoming budget – to protect those most at risk from poverty by not introducing further damaging cuts to welfare support and by addressing the chronic underfunding of the overstretched advice sector. In its budget submission last […]

The Boards of Rightsnet (the UK’s leading social welfare law and access to justice website) and AdviceUK (the largest membership network of independent advice services in the UK) have announced they are exploring whether the two organisations should come together within AdviceUK’s existing group structure to sustain the much-valued services and support that Rightsnet provides for advice services.

Over 20 MPs and representatives from across the UK’s independent advice sector came together on Monday, 20 October for the #AdviceSaves 2025 Parliamentary Reception.  The event celebrated the life-changing impact of independent advice services and the contribution of the people who work in them. We launched AdviceUK’s new report, Advice Works: building a skilled advice […]