SCARE Conference 2024
Join us for ASA’s annual Standing Council on Advice Research and Evaluation (SCARE) on 29 November 2024. The conference is an opportunity to hear from researchers and academics about this year’s advice delivery, need and related system studies. Support from the Nuffield Foundation is enabling us to run an in-person event at Quinn Emanuel, 90 […]
Advice is the Key to Government Missions
Advice is the Key to your missions – ASA’s message to the Government The Advice Services Alliance has published its asks of the new Government, arguing that access to free, independent, quality assured social welfare advice is crucial for rebuilding trust in public systems and a key to delivering the Government’s goals. The requests have […]
The role of communities and connections in social welfare legal advice
This research examined how access to social welfare legal (SWL) advice interacts with community connectedness, (in)equality, and wellbeing. Why is this important? SWL advice helps people with everyday problems related to benefits, debt, employment, housing, immigration, and social care. As advice needs increase, and local community and identity-based systems of support emerge, there are gaps […]
Advice Quality Standard COVID-19 Contingency August 2020
Please read our August 2020 AQS assessment visits policy statement on COVID-19: Advice Services Alliance AQS Policy statement COVID Aug 2020 PDF
Press Release 9 April 2020 – Covid-19
COVID-19: MANY ADVICE ORGANISATIONS FACING IMMINENT COLLAPSE, JUST AS DEMAND FOR THEIR SERVICES RISES RAPIDLY Survey exposes sector’s financial vulnerability, difficulties of delivering support online, a lack of remote-working facilities and IT infrastructure, just at the time Covid-19 crisis is creating a surge in public demand for advice services. According to a survey by the Advice […]
ASA and Low Commission Launch Report on Health Outcomes of Advice
On Monday 29th June 2015, the ASA and the Low Commission held an event at the House of Lords to launch our report on the health outcomes of advice. The report has been extremely well received and we will be following up the launch with a dissemination strategy, aimed primarly at health and social care […]
Big Lottery Fund announce new Help Through Crisis programme
The Big Lottery Fund announced on Monday 6th July 2015 a new funding programme aimed at helping people experiencing extreme difficulties or crisis. The fund will enable between 50 and 70 projects across England work in partnership to provide client focussed advice and support in order to both support people at times of crisis and […]
The Role of Advice Services in Health Outcomes
We are pleased to announce today, the publication of an evidence review undertaken through a joint project between the Advice Services Alliance and the Low Commission. The report outlines key findings from 140 research studies in the field, and gives an overview of 58 integrated health & welfare Advice Services. A clear message comes from these wide-ranging […]
What are the health outcomes of good advice?
The ASA is delighted to announce our new research project, looking at the health impacts of advice giving. A roundtable at the Barings Foundation in July 2014 lead to a discussion of what could be done to demonstrate to health commissioners and Health and Wellbeing Boards that advice (of the non health variety) can indeed be good for you. […]