Supporting Financial Inclusion
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Workstream:
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Corporate Improvement and Value for Money – Business Transformation
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Title:
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Supporting Financial Inclusion
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Scope:
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Sub-regional South Yorkshire
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Funds awarded:
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£120,000
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Lead contact:
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Colin Earl
Tel: 01709 822033
Email: colin.earl@rotherham.gov.uk
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Background:
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This project builds on a commitment to three key nationally established priorities already shared by the four authorities and spelled out in their individual financial inclusion strategies: • Improving access to affordable credit and other financial services • Improving access to face to face advice • Improving access to financial capability awareness and training |
There are three distinct but related elements to our proposal:
• Increasing the co-ordination, quality and effective delivery of financial capability training for front line staff.
• Working with offenders, ex-offenders and their families to increase levels of financial capability, access to bank and credit union accounts and face to face advice.
• Increasing capacity within the advice sector by exploring, developing and piloting additional, cost effective means of making advice support and materials more available to people in need.
Delivery:
• Refining the use of improved materials, through piloting. Providing more focused, user friendly materials, avoiding duplication. Providing greater flexibility and range.
• Improved processes: improved signposting, improved referral systems (number and quality), improved access and take up by individuals of front line services.
• Improved skills, particularly for front line workers and financial excluded people. Raise awareness of financial inclusion issues.
• Improved partnership working and networks. Increasing the number of organisations connecting and working together and improving the ways in which they work together – establishing a co-ordinated, seamless set of connections.
• Providing consistency of approach – avoiding the post code lottery of access to services.
• Improved processes: improved signposting, improved referral systems (number and quality), improved access and take up by individuals of front line services.
• Improved skills, particularly for front line workers and financial excluded people. Raise awareness of financial inclusion issues.
• Improved partnership working and networks. Increasing the number of organisations connecting and working together and improving the ways in which they work together – establishing a co-ordinated, seamless set of connections.
• Providing consistency of approach – avoiding the post code lottery of access to services.
Outcomes:
• The transformation of public services in our priority areas;
• Self-improving authorities that lead and support others, and are open to challenge;
• Active self-directing and value adding networks that drive innovation and share learning; and
• An improvement and efficiency ‘hub’ offering access to coherent and co-ordinated high quality support to all authorities and their partners.
• Self-improving authorities that lead and support others, and are open to challenge;
• Active self-directing and value adding networks that drive innovation and share learning; and
• An improvement and efficiency ‘hub’ offering access to coherent and co-ordinated high quality support to all authorities and their partners.
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