Campaigning

Debt Advice Foundation intends to work with the government, lenders and other stakeholders to bring about legislative change to benefit UK consumers. Over the coming months, the charity will be publishing several policy documents & white papers covering a broad spectrum of financial issues including:

• The need for a coherent, regulatory framework covering all financial management activities.
• Agreeing a legislative framework for the provision of consistent, impartial and free financial advice.
• Improving consumer access to appropriate solutions by resolving existing market misalignments and better understanding lender attitudes and perceptions.
• Rehabilitation of the financially impaired.

Framework for ethical debt advice

Click here to find out more about Debt Advice Foundation's blueprint for ethical advice and sustainable solutions. The charity is campaigning to have this framework widely adopted throughout the debt advice industry so that instances of inappropriate advice can be reduced.

Proposed changes to Bankruptcy process

Click here to read about the charity's response to the November 2009 paper issued by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills proposing changes to the Bankruptcy process

Call for Government debt advice strategy overhaul

Click here to read about the charity's response to the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee report on helping over-indebted consumers.

APPG on Financial Education for Young People

Click here to read more about the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, of which the charity is a registered supporter. The charity strongly believes that engaging with the next generation of credit users to foster a more responsible attitude to borrowing and saving is both key to tackling the burgeoning levels of consumer debt and to reducing pressure on heavily oversubscribed advice agency resource.

APPG on Debt and Personal Finance

Click here to read more about the All Party Parliamentary Group on Debt and Personal Finance, of which the charity is a registered supporter. The group provides a forum for MPs and organisations with an interest in personal finance to discuss pertinent industry issues and how they can be tackled.