The power to settle financial complaints.
The power to settle financial complaints.
24 July 2008
The Financial Ombudsman Service is taking part in the Beyond Boundaries Live show at Kent Showground on 25 and 26 July 2008 – to help raise awareness of the ombudsman service's impartial role in settling financial disputes.
Beyond Boundaries Live is the lifestyle event for people with a disability. The show focuses on encouraging a "can do" attitude and not viewing disability as an inability but as a challenge to overcome boundaries. According to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, around 9.8 million people in the UK currently have a disability – with more than half the population over 75 having some form of disability.
The ombudsman service is delighted to be working with Beyond Boundaries for the second year running. To mark the event, the ombudsman service is providing wheelchair users and blue-badge holders with a high-visibility rucksack, containing:
This initiative is part of the ombudsman service's commitment to outreach work with specific groups of consumers, who our research indicates are less likely to know about, or use, our service.
Outreach work with people with disabilities has included: