Working Together for Advice project
What is it?
The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) has been awarded £5,714,742 by the Big Lottery Fund under the first phase of its Advice Plus programme. The funding is to deliver a multiple strand project that will provide a range of support services to independent advice centres in England. The project runs from January 2008 to September 2010.
Who's doing it?
The project is being delivered by a consortium comprising:
- ASA
- AdviceUK
- Age Concern England
- Citizens Advice
- Law Centres Federation
- Youth Access
What is it aiming to do?
The overall aims of the project are to:
- increase access to advice
- enhance the quality of advice
- demonstrate the value of advice
- improve the efficiency of advice services
- build the capacity of the advice sector.
How will it achieve this?
The project is divided into eight workstreams:
- developing access to advice
- user and stakeholder involvement
- enhancing frontline advice
- developing a quality mark
- advice outcomes
- developing discrimination advice
- workforce development and training
- promoting advice.
For further information, please contact: Ida Forster
Working Together for Advice Project Manager
020 7398 1474
ida.forster@asauk.org.uk
