Annual Report 2008

Proposed Council Activities during 2009

Our aims for 2009 include the following:

• Maintain contact with the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Office of Fair Trading, Citizens Advice, the Money Advice Trust and the Bankruptcy Advisory Service.
• Meet regularly with the Insolvency Service, the Joint Insolvency Committee and the RPBs plus R3 and other bodies as appropriate, eg, the Ministry of Justice;
• Maintain pressure on the insolvency profession to progress recommendations made in previous IPC Annual Reports;
• Continue to contribute to the work of the IVA Standing Committee and its sub-Committee, in particular concerning IVA and DMP statistics and the Debtors’ Guide;
• Follow-up with the insolvency regulators our recommendations following the two pieces of Complaints Handling research undertaken by Nottingham Trent University;
• Commission further research as appropriate;
• Visit Scotland to maintain contact with the Accountant in Bankruptcy and Citizens Advice Scotland and to keep a watching brief on Scottish insolvency developments;
• Keep abreast of 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 (supported for by a grant from the Barbican Trustees of Farringdon Insurance Company Limited);
• Attend the ICAS and R3 Lite annual conferences;
• Respond to questions posed via the IPC website and telephone;
• Monitor press reports concerning the insolvency profession.