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Advice, support and poverty: an evidence review
New JRF-commissioned report from Inclusion that ‘considers the needs of people in poverty for information, advice and support, and how services can help to prevent, mitigate, and reduce poverty’
Recommendations include -
- that Government should consider the likely impact on the demand for advice in any future equality impact assessment of proposed changes to policies and administrative arrangements which are likely to affect people living in poverty
- further research should be carried out to monetise the social policy impacts of advice provision, with evidence suggesting that these are likely to be substantial at both the local and national levels
- a national stakeholder group should be established to develop a consistent approach to the future measurement of advice services impacts, with the involvement of the Cabinet Office, advice funders and providers, and representative associations of local authorities and other key public sector bodies
http://www.cesi.org.uk/publications/advice-support-and-poverty-evidence-review
This is an excellent report - recommended as a good background read for anyone trying to convince a funder of the value of advice provision.