Guidance

Public Sector Toolkits

The Vulnerability Toolkit and the Economic Abuse Toolkit have been designed to help public sector creditors identify and support their vulnerable customers experiencing a range of difficulties. They may also be useful to other organisations and businesses.

From:
HM Treasury
Published
16 January 2023
Last updated
20 December 2023 — See all updates

Documents

Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit for service and policy managers V2 (HTML)

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Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit for service and policy managers V2 (PDF)

PDF, 2.17 MB, 38 pages

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Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit for frontline debt management staff V2 (HTML)

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Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit for frontline debt management staff V2 (PDF)

PDF, 1.06 MB, 25 pages

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Economic Abuse Toolkit (HTML)

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Economic Abuse Toolkit (Interactive)

https://tax.service.gov.uk/guidance/check-for-signs-economic-abuse

Economic Abuse Toolkit (PDF)

PDF, 9.64 MB, 30 pages

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The Vulnerability Toolkit and the Economic Abuse Toolkit have been designed to help public sector creditors identify and support their vulnerable customers experiencing a range of difficulties. They may also be useful to other organisations and businesses.

These have been collaboratively developed by the government’s Debt Fairness Group, a partnership between central and local government, the debt advice sector, and the debt collection industry. The Government Debt Management Functional Centre established the Fairness Group in 2016, to recommend evidence based improvements to government’s debt management practices.

The Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit is designed to help public sector creditors support their vulnerable customers. It provides front line staff with best-practice tools to identify and assist people facing physical and mental challenges, so recovery can focus on those who are deliberately trying to avoid repaying their debts.

The Economic Abuse Toolkit aims to help creditors who are recovering debt to understand, identify and support people who may have experienced or may be experiencing economic abuse. The interactive version of the toolkit must only be used by those trained in handling economic abuse calls in the public sector, organisations, and businesses to identify cases of economic abuse. Noticing the signs and acting on them can have a huge impact on someone’s safety and economic stability.

Published 16 January 2023
Last updated 20 December 2023 + show all updates

  1. Added the document: Economic Abuse Toolkit (Interactive)

  2. Updated with the latest toolkit versions: Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit for service and policy managers V2 Debt Management Vulnerability Toolkit for frontline debt management staff V2

  3. First published.