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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, […]

Following a joint feasibility study into the potential for 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) to come together within AdviceUK’s existing group structure to sustain the much-valued services and support that Rightsnet provides for advice services; […]

AdviceUK Speaks Up for Members: January 2026  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 services.  […]

Responding to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s report “Ministry of Justice follow-up: Autumn 2025” published today, Liz Bayram, Chief Executive of AdviceUK said: “We welcome the Public Accounts Committee’s report, which includes several recommendations AdviceUK has long campaigned for. Our members who provide legal aid services have repeatedly raised these concerns, and it is positive […]

AdviceUK welcomes some positive moves announced in last week’s Budget statement and, in particular, the decision to lift the punishing two-child benefit cap. This is a change our members have long called for and is a clear sign that the Government is listening to the advice sector. Other welcome announcements include measures to address the cost-of-living crisis and the overall uplift to the Ministry […]