Published quarterly by Citizens Advice, Evidence journal aims to highlight a range of current policy concerns of the Citizens Advice service. It details the CAB client evidence that drives our concerns and our ideas for solutions. Our policy interests are as broad in scope as the advice that bureaux give - consumer rights, debt and financial exclusion, access to justice, welfare benefits, employment, immigration, health and housing. Readers of Evidence journal will find all these issues covered and more.
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Evidence journal June 2008
- Benefits - Liz Phelps explains the unintended consequences of recent housing benefit reform
- Poverty - Katie Lane discusses the impact of the 10p tax rate cut
- Credit and Debt - Teresa Perchard examines the impact of the credit crunch on CAB debt clients
- Essential Services - Tony Herbert approves Ofcom's action against dodgy mobile cashback offers, but suggests that regulations should go further
- Employment - Richard Dunstan analyses the TUC Commission on Vulnerable Employment report
Evidence journal March 2008
- Benefits - Liz Phelps argues for no change in backdating rules
- Debt - Peter Tutton questions the current emphasis of policy initiatives to tackle debt
- Benefits and Tax - Vicky Pearlman asks whether HMRC should collect tiny tax debts from low income pensioners
- Employment - Richard Dustan looks at recent research on CAB clients experiencing a problem at work
- Legal and Consumer - Susan Marks and James Sandbach call for better consumer protection in the will writing market
Evidence journal December 2007
- Bankrupt Britain? - Teresa Perchard argues that a concerted effort by regulators and businesses is needed to stop irresponsible lending
- Legal - James Sandbach looks at the impact of the Legal Services Act 2007, which implemented the 'Clementi proposals' for legal services reform
- Employment - Richard Dunstan makes the case for a Fair Employment Commission to tackle rogue employers effectively and secure employment rights for vulnerable workers
- Benefits - Katie Lane argues that the Government must provide a personalised approach to help people back to work rather than increase conditionally
- Housing - Liz Phelps makes the case for private rented sector reform
- Climate Change - Susan Marks looks at CAB clients' experience of the 2007 floods
Evidence journal September 2007
- Charging into court - Sue Edwards calls on banks and building societies to continue to refund bank charges for customers in financial difficulty
- Legal - Jane Phipps sets out the challenges for litigants in person being able to use the county court system effectively
- Employment - Richard Dunstan laments the failure of the recent Gibbons review of employment tribunals to tackle the issue of non-payment of awards by rogue employers
- Health - Sophie Chapman asks what more could be done to improve access to NHS dentistry for all communities in London
- Education - Kim Maynard asks whether enough is being done to make school uniforms affordable
- Essential Services - Tony Herbert considers the criteria which should be used to determine who should win the contract to operate the successor account to the Post Office card account.
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