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Welcome to the October 2011 Turn2us News - our e-bulletin for intermediaries. Read on to learn more about updates to our Benefits Checker and Grants Search database; intermediary feedback on our services from the annual Citizens Advice conference; and the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland grant we have secured.
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The Turn2us Benefit Checker and the Grants Search enquiry form have both been refreshed to reflect feedback from our users and the outcomes of an independent usability review.
Find out more about these changes
We were delighted to meet so many Citizens Advice bureaux staff and front-line workers from other advice agencies at the Empowering Communities conference in September. Many gave us moving first-hand accounts of how our services had supported them in their work.
Read what they said about Turn2us services
Turn2us has secured funding from the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland to develop our intermediary training programme in rural and isolated areas.
Find out more about this initiative
Free half-day workshops in Birmingham (11/12 January) and Northern Ireland (3 and 24 November) are now available for intermediaries working with people in financial need.
Register for these new workshops
The number of working-age adults in poverty is predicted to rise by more than 40% by 2020, according to a new Institute for Fiscal Studies report, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The study also shows that the 2020 targets to reduce child poverty will be missed.
Read more about this report
Turn2us helps people in financial need gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help - online, by phone and face to face through our partner organisations. We are part of the national charity, Elizabeth Finn Care.
Date of publication: October 2011
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