Hackney Advice Forum

Hackney Advice Forum

At a glance

Causes

  • Campaigning
  • Counselling / advice
  • Education
  • Financial inclusion
  • Health and well being / research and care
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Local / community
  • Poverty relief
  • Refugees / migrants
  • Social care
  • Training / employment support
  • Voluntary sector support
  • Women
  • Young people

Other details

Geographical remit: 
Local

Objectives

The Hackney Advice Forum aims to help independent advice agencies in the borough improve the quality, level and co-ordination of their services and activities by:

  • providing a network and mechanism for advice agencies and those involved in advice work, to share and learn and develop effective ways of working together;
  • helping the sector to obtain the resources it needs (training, information, etc.) to get the best possible outcomes for users and communities; and
  • providing a voice for the independent advice sector locally.

 

In all of its activities, the Forum will keep paramount, and strive to further, the interests of service users/clients and the communities from which they are drawn. The Forum will work to ensure the continued independence of advice agencies and groups (and the Forum itself) so that these interests can be pursued without fear or favour.

 

Activities

The Forum’s work programme at any one time will be decided by Forum members as appropriate to local circumstances. However, routine activities are likely to include some or all of the following:

    • creating opportunities to meet and work better with other local providers through regular meetings and other events;
    • access to training, delivered through Forum members, or by outsiders as appropriate.    
    • project-based support to improve the operational effectiveness of individual advice services and the quality of advice available to users;
    • initiation and co-ordination of strategic planning of advice services, working in partnership with funders and statutory agencies, where it is possible to do so;
    • research into local needs for advice, the adequacy of service provision and the bringing forward of proposals to fill gaps in provision;
    • representational, and where necessary campaign, work with the local authority and other statutory sector agencies on issues of social policy and practice, and other matters of relevance to independent advice agencies, their clients and their communities.

 

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