Last week, the Citizens Advice network received the welcome news from the Scottish Government that one of our key programmes of work is moving to a multi-year funding cycle.  

To describe that as a gamechanger is an understatement. 

At its heart, advice is about bringing stability to volatility. Multi-year funding helps lift parts of the immense pressure on our network and enables them to do what they do best – deliver advice that change lives.  

As one CAB manager put to us, “our community really needs this advice, we are so relieved they will still have access to this.” 

And while it was news we would welcome at any time, it was the boost we all needed last week after a video appeared on social media, showing the waiting area of one of our CABs. It was packed full of people waiting in........

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