Enforcement Conduct Authority will work to protect vulnerable debtors

Centre for Social Justice unveils partnership between bailiffs and advice charities as a third more people in severe debt than before COVID

Plans to strengthen protections for households facing a post-pandemic tidal wave of debt have been brokered by the think-tank Centre for Justice. In what can be regarded as a ground-breaking move, organisations representing enforcement firms and charities devoted to helping hard-up families have worked together to ensure people caught in a COVID debt crisis do not face unfair treatment at the hands of bailiffs.

The enforcement companies and charities have devised a new independent body –...

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