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| Annual Report 2007 Proposed Council Activities during 2008 Our aims for 2008 include the following: • Meet regularly with the Insolvency Service, the Joint Insolvency Committee, the RPBs, R3 and other bodies as appropriate, eg, the Banking Codes Standards Board; • Maintain pressure on the insolvency profession to progress recommendations made in previous IPC Annual Reports; • Maintain contact with the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Office of Fair Trading, Citizens Advice, the Money Advice Trust, the Bankruptcy Advisory Service and the Community Legal Services; • Continue to contribute to the work of the IVA Standing Committee, in particular concerning IVA and DMP statistics and the Debtors’ Guide; • Follow-up work on recommendations following the Complaints Handling research; • Commission research into comparing the insolvency regulators’ disciplinary systems with those of some other professions; • Visit Scotland to maintain contacts with the Scottish RPBs, the Accountant in Bankruptcy and Citizens Advice Scotland and to keep a watching brief on Scottish insolvency developments; • Keep up to date with developments in the accreditation and monitoring of all providers of debt advice and solutions and the work of the Debt Resolution Forum; • Respond to government consultation papers on relevant issues; • Attend relevant courses and conferences (paid for by a grant from the Barbican Trustees of Farringdon Insurance Company Limited); • Attend and address the ICAS and R3 annual conferences on the work of the IPC; • Respond to questions posed via the IPC website and telephone; and • Monitor press reports concerning the insolvency profession. |
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