Funding to the free money advice sector mainly comes from local authorities and several witnesses highlighted concerns about cuts to funding.vEEFW Committee, Official Report, 28 January 2020, col 27
A money adviser at the City of Edinburgh Council told the Committee:
when I started 15 years ago, there were 19 full-time money advisers in the advice shop...Until recently, we had three advisers. We recently appointed three new...