e-Consultation
The aim of Advice NI's most recent eConsultation was to give people the chance to have their say on what the future provision of advice services in Northern Ireland should look like.
The eConsultation which ran from Wednesday 22nd February to Friday 24th March is now closed but messages can be still be viewed.
The voluntary advice sector in Northern Ireland deals with over 450,000 enquiries per year on debt, employment, immigration, benefits and other issues.
In it's consultation document [PDF] A Strategy for Supporting Delivery of Voluntary Advice Services to the Community, government is proposing changes to the advice sector. For example the number of advice centres it will fund, their location and the type of advice given.
The aim of advicenet is to develop a new online community of advice workers, to enable the discussion of social policy issues via discussion forums. This online community will enable frontline advice workers to participate in social policy formulation and implementation debates.
Bill McCluggage, Director of the e-Government Unit NI, formally launched Advice NI's e-consultation project, advicenet, in Parliament Buildings, Stormont, in May 2004
e-consultation
A report of the Advice NI online forum discussion [PDF] Debt on your Doorstep - Who's Responsible? is now available. With the average UK household debt of £6,800 (excluding mortgages) and 23 per cent of people unsure of how much they actually owe, Advice NI believes money advice has an increasingly important role to play in the advice sector.
The Advice NI online Social Policy e-consultation [PDF] Tax Credits: Looking Back, Moving Forward is now closed. This was an opportunity for Advice NI members to contribute their views and experiences on the issue of Tax Credits, how they impacted on their work, their clients and any suggestions for improvements to the Tax Credit system. The e-consultation ran from 1st March to 24th March 04 after which a report of the findings was sent to the Inland Revenue.
The Advice NI e-consultation on [PDF] Pension Credit - the First 60 Days is now closed. The e-consultation ran from 3rd December 03 until the 17th December 03 and targeted advice workers.
If you are interested in running an e-consultation please contact Patricia at Advice NI
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