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Downloadable content explaining how bankruptcy works, how it can and can’t affect your life and how it compares to other debt relief options.
How to report a vulnerability you find on any of the Insolvency Service's systems.
Practical guidance for insolvency practitioners who hold and manage Insolvency Service Accounts (ISAs).
The Regulators' Compliance Code is designed to embed a risk-based, targeted approach to regulatory inspection and enforcement.
Letter issued to insolvency practitioners in 2009 about pre-packaged sales in administrations (pre-packs).
This publication guides insolvency practitioners to ensure that cases are properly controlled and administered at all times.
This guide is intended to remind insolvency practitioners of their duty to deal properly with complaints.
The insolvency practitioner has an obligation to ensure that cases are properly managed at all times. This includes contingency planning.
Memorandum of understanding between Jobcentre Plus, R3 and the Insolvency Service to support workers of companies facing closure.
Memorandum of understanding for the purposes of achieving consistency in the authorisation and regulation of insolvency practitioners.
The principles agreed between the Secretary of State and the recognised professional bodies that authorise insolvency practitioners (IPs).
Professional bodies that are recognised to authorise (licence) insolvency practitioners under the Insolvency Act 1986
This guide is for people who want to practise as an insolvency practitioner under the provisions of EU Directives 2005/36 & 2006/123.
Memorandum of understanding about the provision of a complaints gateway
Oversight regulation and monitoring of the bodies that authorise and regulate insolvency practitioners.
The Redundancy Payments Service is recalculating relevant redundancy-related claims made in relation to insolvent companies and businesses.
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A comprehensive guide to insolvency, focusing on concepts and definitions used in statistics published by the Insolvency Service.
Guidance for insolvency officeholders regarding the applicable frameworks in different EU member states
This Policy sets out the circumstances and way in which the Insolvency Service will investigate complaints about the way a Recognised Professional Body (RPB) has dealt with a complaint about an Insolvency Practitioner.
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