Cuts have created soaring demand for money advice. Cash-strapped local authorities are looking for current ways to combat poverty and offer support
“I see it as part of our natural remit,” says Jane Corbett, cabinet member at Liverpool city council, and whose portfolio spans fairness,social inclusion and equalities. “I’m very clear that financial inclusion is part of my role.”In attempting to tackle financial exclusion as part of her precedence to “make poverty a thing of the past”, Corbett is working in very difficult times. Liverpool city council, and she points out,has had to put into effect a budget sever of 58%. This means although the council still commissions money advice services, it’s had to reduce its direct funding by half. The local authority itself has become unable to succor its most financially excluded residents on the scale that Corbett knows they need.
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Source: theguardian.com