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SPIU Briefing 4: Financial Inclusion:  Access to Banking (Louise Dobbie)

This briefing paper examines banking exclusion alongside recent policy responses and proposals.


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Current Series

SPIU intends to publish a new SPIU Briefing every two months. SPIU Briefings are time-limited and will updated within 24 months. Mailing list subscribers can be notified of when new SPIU Briefings are published. Click on the hyperlink to download the Briefing of your choice.
  • SPIU Briefing 1:  Financial Capability  Published in January 2009 and written by Louise Dobbie (SPIU). This briefing paper provides a definition of financial capability alongside an overview of recent policy changes and responses.

  • SPIU Briefing 2: Debt and Money Advice written by Morag Gillespie. This briefing paper provides an overview of the development of money advice as one response to growing levels of indebtedness.

  • SPIU Briefing 3: Financial Inclusion:  Access to insurance   written by Kate Lindsay. This briefing paper provides a brief overview of access to home insurance for low income households.


Historical Series

The original SPIU Briefing Sheets were published between 1997 and 2003. These briefing sheets were sponsored by a wide range of Third Sector and public sector organisations and were often co-authored by SPIU staff and external experts.  As these briefings are outdated, they are no longer available to download.  However, hard and soft copies of these briefing sheets are available on request.  Please contact spiu@gcal.ac.uk for more details.  The series comprised:
1 – Defining poverty
2 – Poverty debates
3 – Women, family and poverty
4 – Welfare debates
5 – Childcare in an anti-poverty strategy
6 – Paying for housing 
7 – Disability and poverty
8 – National Minimum Wage
9 – New Deal
10 – Rural poverty
11 - Elderly people and poverty
12 – Race and poverty
13 – Social exclusion
14 – Globalisation
15 – Social security
16 – Working Families Tax Credit
17 – Child poverty
18 – Women, poverty and health