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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a public call for evidence to inform the Timms Review into Personal Independence Payment (PIP). This consultation provides an important opportunity for AdviceUK members to help shape the future of disability benefits policy. As part of the Government’s wider reforms to the health and disability benefits […]

Our members are at the heart of the work we do at AdviceUK. So, we’d love to hear how you,  feel the last year has been for your advice service, your views on AdviceUK membership and our advocacy work, as well as what you’d like from your membership going forward. And by doing so, you can win £500!  The 2026 Member Survey is now open – has your organisation received the link? Please ask your […]

The Home Secretary’s latest announcements will place additional demand on already overstretched advice services, making it more difficult to help people get settled, integrate, and promote community cohesion, AdviceUK, the largest network of free and independent advice services, said. Against the backdrop of the controversial “earned settlement” consultation, the Home Secretary has made further staggering […]

Every day, at AdviceUK, we advocate on behalf of you – our members. We work closely with you to understand and cover the issues that affect you and your clients. We work with a wide range of external stakeholders and seek to influence decision-makers so that we can improve the landscape within which advice services operate and the lives of the people you support. We also speak to the media on your behalf about the issues that matter to advice […]

AdviceUK, the largest network of free and independent advice services, has responded to the Home Office’s “A Fairer Pathway to Settlement” consultation, fundamentally rejecting the proposals, and has urged the Government to drop them. Drawing on the experiences of its members who provide frontline immigration advice, AdviceUK warns that the proposals will increase insecurity and inequality for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers and their […]

On 10 February, AdviceUK, the UK’s largest network of independent advice services, gave oral evidence at the second session of the House of Commons Justice Select Committee’s inquiry into access to justice, drawing on its written evidence and the experiences of AdviceUK’s over 700 members. In the session, Liz Bayram, Chief Executive of AdviceUK, highlighted the crucial role of advice services in ensuring everyone, regardless of means, can access justice, […]