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How does financial exclusion affect the young?

11 October 2016

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The National Youth Agency, Gingerbread and Young Scot appear, amongst others, before the Select Committee on Financial Exclusion to discuss the impact of financial exclusion on young people, care leavers and low income and lone parent families.

Witnesses

Tuesday 11 October, Committee Room 2A, Palace of Westminster

At 10.40am

  • Jon Boagey, Associate Director, National Youth Agency
  • Louise Macdonald OBE, Director, Young Scot
  • Sarah Milan, Director, Rees Foundation

At 11.40am

  • Alison Garnham, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group
  • Sumi Rabindrakumar, Research Officer, Gingerbread

Possible questions

  • What are the key financial challenges facing young adults and what is the relationship between these challenges and financial exclusion?
  • What financial education is there for young adults who are not in formal education? 
  • How do financial services engage with young adults and is this engagement appropriate?
  • What is the nature of the financial exclusion experienced by low income and lone parent families, and have policy interventions to tackle exclusion been effective?
  • What effect is the six-week wait for the first Universal Credit payment having on claimants and on debt levels?
  • Is there a link between child maintenance payments and financial exclusion?

Further information

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