Independent Advice and Debt - future plans

Future plans

We are committed to engaging with a wide range of organisations in the sector, including those supported through our existing funding programmes as well as those that are not, as well as involving other stakeholders such as other Departments, Local Government partners and independent funders.

We are also working with an Independent Advice and Debt Reference Group comprising a range of sectoral interests, through which we will draw on lived experience, expertise and knowledge, and together explore a range of insights and ideas in the design of new approaches.

The Strategic Investment Board are assisting the Department with this work and are conducting a series of engagements, including thematic design workshops. These workshops are taking place at different locations around NI. Each workshop will involve up to 40 participants and will focus on various key themes, including, but not limited to, identifying the evidence of need for advice provision in NI, identifying gaps in support and identifying the priorities to support independent advice and debt delivery in the future.

Have your say

You can sign up for one of the following events: The workshops are open to all organisations who engage with or support independent advice and debt delivery.

Supporting materials for the workshop events are available on the DfC website.

Places are limited, therefore we request only 1 person per organisation register and attend each event.

If you require any further information, please contact: AdviceServices.Team@communities-ni.gov.uk