Intro to financial wellbeing support for adults with learning disabilities

Overview of event

This session explores the nuances of providing financial wellbeing support for adults with learning disabilities (LD) and autism.

What this event will cover

During this session we will explore:

• The case for financial wellbeing support for adults with with LD & autism
• The unique challenges faced by adults with LD & autism when seeking financial support
• An overview of The Money Charity's specialist programme to deliver Activity-Based Financial Wellbeing Workshops to groups of adults with LD & autism.
• The impact of the partnership between The Money Charity and The Tower Project to deliver Activity-Based Workshops to participants of the Job Enterprise & Training Services
• Tips on how to support adults with LD and autism to manage their money

Who should attend this event:

Money Guiders delivering money guidance to people with learning disabilities and autism across the UK who want to better understand how to support their financial wellbeing.

Who the speakers are

This session will be delivered by Kate McQueen, the Community Programmes Manager at The Money Charity in collaboration with Sophie Lewis, Operations Lead SIP for the JET Service at The Tower Project.

For over 30 years, The Money Charity has been the UK’s Financial Capability charity and their vision is that everyone achieves Financial Wellbeing by managing their money well.

The Tower Project’s award-winning Job Enterprise and Training Service (JET) is East London’s leading provider of specialist supported employment services for people with Learning Disabilities and Autism.

Areas of the competency framework

Knowledge and compliance: Signposting Your customers and Technical Domain: Knowing Your Customers

https://maps.org.uk/en/our-work/money-guiders/competency-framework/foundation-skills/knowledge-and-compliance/e-signposting-customers

Accessibility

This session will be delivered in English. Closed captions appear as standard. If you require any accessibility adjustments to access this session, such as receiving a copy of the slidedeck in advance, please contact the session organisers on moneyguidernetwork@qsa.org.uk.

This event is held on Zoom. You will be sent the direct Zoom link 1-5 days before the event. When you first click to join, you will receive a message along the lines of "waiting for the host to let you in".

When you "arrive" in the Zoom meeting, you can choose whether to have your camera on or off. You will be invited to share details about yourself in the chat, which you don't have to do, but some people do as it helps us understand a bit more about who we all are.

We ask all participants to stay on mute/silent unless speaking to the group. This helps us to avoid unncessary background noise that can interfere with your experience of the event.

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The Money Guiders Programme

Money Guiders is provided by the Money and Pensions Service. It is a programme which seeks to help money guidance practitioners improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.

Before attending the session, you could:

• Try out our money guidance confidence checker, to find out how you feel about the conversations you have with customers about money

• Spend some time considering the challenges you face in your work, specifically when you provide help and guidance to your clients or service users around money issues.

• Consider how you spot potential problems, how you can start conversations about money in a sensitive way and at an appropriate time?

• Think about how you can maintain good boundaries in your role as a money guidance practitioner within your main area of work?