money guidance

Following listening events in Northern Ireland and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing at the start of 2020. The Strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery...

Health, Social Care and Welfare Systems Strategy Lead Sarah Murphy shares three free ways you can help people with their money concerns in your uniquely placed role as a link worker, including the tools and guidance available to support you to make a difference to the people you assist. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, 11.5 million people had less than £100 of savings to fall...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Following listening events in Wales and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing in January 2020. The strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery Plan for...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing In 2020 the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the 10-year framework for achieving our vision of ‘everyone one making the most of their money and pensions’: the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing. Since then MaPS has worked with hundreds of partners in England and the whole of the UK, from across government, industry and the third...

Financial First Aiders pilot As an employer, it may come as no surprise that financial concerns impact your employees’ mental and physical health, and can even affect work performance. This may have become even more evident in your team in the Covid-19 pandemic, or during life events like maternity leave, bereavement or divorce. Research estimates that money worries cost the UK...

Speaker: Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) chair Sir Hector Sants Just over two years ago, the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) made its first major strategic intervention into helping people manage their money. In January 2020 we launched the UK’s first ever national Financial Wellbeing Strategy. Our UK strategy was developed with the explicit support of government. It drew upon...

Understanding how to improve the quality of money guidance delivered across the UK In April 2021 the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) began a pilot to improve the quality of money guidance delivered across the UK, by upskilling organisations and individuals providing money guidance to their service users. The Money Guiders Programme pilot (Phase 1) formally ended in October 2021. MaPS...

Fiona Ellis, Learning and Award Lead at the Money and Pensions Service, reflects on how you can learn and develop through Money Guiders, and how the programme will respond to the findings of the independent evaluation of the pilot phase, published today. The Money Guiders...

Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) Chief Executive Caroline Siarkiewicz looks back at our work in 2021 and goals for the coming year. I’m sure we will all agree that 2021 has been a challenging year both for individuals and organisations. In light of those challenges, I am particularly proud of the work that we have done with our partners and...

Money plays such a huge role in the fabric of our lives. Whatever the challenge or life event, when people reach out for help, money guidance often forms part of the support they need. Head of sector skills Michaela Kirsop shares an update on the Money Guiders pilot – a programme which aims to develop the skills, confidence and capacity of the amazing organisations and practitioners...

Delivery Plan for Northern Ireland

Three ways link workers can support people with their money worries

Delivery Plan for Wales

Delivery Plan for England

Holistic employee wellbeing: How to support financial wellbeing through peer-to-peer money guidance

Financial Inclusion Summit – 15 February 2022

Money Guiders Programme evaluation: headline report

Our development programme for Money Guiders: what we tested and learned

2021: Looking back, looking forward

The front line of money guidance: Money Guiders pilot update

Managing money in uncertain times