Urgent funding for Citizens Advice Bureaux

What it asks

What the petitioner did first

1. 9 Dec 2020
   Public Petitions Committee

   New Petitions
   1 mention

1. Scotland109 74.1%
2. United Kingdom37 25.2%
3. Wales1 0.7%

1. Mary Doonan 28 Oct 2020
   Invaluable service
2. David Foster 28 Oct 2020
   CAB are needed now more than ever.
3. Stuart Allison 28 Oct 2020
   Please support
4. Prof. Alyson Kettles (Ret.) 28 Oct 2020
   CAB are an essential public service. Their work needs to be supported and properly funded.
5. Jim Guyan 1 Nov 2020
   I fully support this petitionand also am off the opinion that this service should be fully funded by the SG. The support that they provide the community is exceptional and without it many people would be without the benefits they are entitled to claim. They also work alongside other third sector agencies thus ensuring that the needs of the individual are met.
6. Patricia Grey 13 Nov 2020
   Cits Advice Bureaux service is absolutely essential and saves money as well as lives.
7. Angela Cousins 15 Nov 2020
   I fully support this petition. This is a vital service and even more so now during the pandemic. CAB needs to be supported, so that they in turn can support our most vulnerable Scottish citizens.
8. John H. Ferguson 17 Nov 2020
   Many years ago I had reason to use the services of the Citizens Advice Bureaux. The help I received was excellent, for which I was very grateful. With the present state of affairs in this country due to the coronavirus, any reduction in the services of the C.A.B. is unacceptable and should be resisted. I would urge the Scottish Government to do all they can to assist this valuable service and provide funding which is so urgently required.
9. Christine Murdoch 18 Nov 2020
   Citizens Advice Bureaux serve all Scottish people and are of vital importance to the most disadvantaged.
   
   Do you agree that they should be funded to ensure people can get the help and support that they need?
10. Jim Farquharson 19 Nov 2020
    As someone who had to make use of CAB services recently, it is a valuable service and should be fully funded by the Scottish Government.
11. Francesco Brunelli 20 Nov 2020
    The task of the public institutions,in a democratic nation, is to remove the obstacles of an economic and social nature which, by de facto limiting freedom and equality, prevent the full development of the human person and the effective participation of all workers in the political, economic and social organisation of the nation
12. Elizabeth Youngson 26 Nov 2020
    I have used the cab find them very helpful, we need this to be kept opened and should be funded.
13. Rachel McMenemy 26 Nov 2020
    I had to make use of CAB a few years back now but I do not know what I would have done without them. This service should be fully funded by government.
14. Paul Wilson 26 Nov 2020
    We need the CAB offices where else are people going to get free advice? Also Why is Scotland not a option? I detest having to put the UK.
15. Mhairi Matheson 27 Nov 2020
    CAB has given a lifeline to many, otherwise despairing of solving their problem.
16. Caroline Kenneil 4 Dec 2020
    I believe that the Civil Law Legal System is unfit for purpose. Poor people cannot afford Lawyers. Access to a court or a judge is not necessarily the same as Access to Justice.
    
    Judges of the Inner House fully agree that the Civil Law is wholly unfit for purpose.
    In Court on 20 April 2018, after consulting with two other judges, Lady Paton suggested to the participants that they return to the Parliaments and to MSPs to ask for "Root and Branch changes to the Legal System..... Civil Law". The judge said in this hearing: "Judges are Drowning in Procedures" and their "hands are tied". How much more so citizens with out legal help, surrounded by skilled adverseries who, I believe, are interested in Winning, money, but not interested in Justice.
    'Root and Branch' means the whole tree of the law needs changing.