Financial skills programme has positive effect - CAB

Since 2002 Citizens Advice, with Prudential acting as a key funding partner, have been running nine pilot schemes across the country targeting ‘hard to reach’ groups such as young parents, care givers, mental health users and refugees and asylum seekers. The report, published to coincide with a meeting this week on financial inclusion by the All Party Parliamentary Group on debt and finance, reveals over 6,000 people have benefited from the original nine pilot schemes. But the figure looks set to increase as around 80 bureaux now provide some kind of financial capability work, helping p...