Launch a 'Community Advice Fund'
During the lockdowns, we at Citizens UK: Birmingham, found it was not enough to just offer food parcel support to families, they needed direct help with accessing welfare and other rights advice. Community Advice Surgeries is proven to reduce health inequalities and is a key tool in delivering a public health approach to reducing youth violence.
We are calling on the Mayor & Police Commissioner to launch an emergency ‘Community Advice Fund’ for local civil society institutions to deliver advice surgeries with the cost of staffing, resources and training covered.