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 […]

AdviceUK today published a landmark report cautioning that staff shortages threaten to undermine the free and independent advice sector, which millions who are most in need in our society rely on. With the cost-of-living crisis and the current strain on the welfare system, advice services are the first line of support for many, but services […]