In the first week of our annual Christmas campaign, we join one of the charity’s mobile units as staff give vital assistance
In an empty market opposite the Morrisons superstore in Wednesbury, a small town amid the West Midlands urban sprawl, a tiny mobile outpost of the local Citizens Advice charity is hard at work, offering practical support to a stream of people who pitch up seeking respite from the grim challenges of poverty and the cost of living crisis.
These are the kind of unhappy tales – of debt, unemployment, benefits and housing problems – that often go unheard, or are ignored, until they balloon out of control, by which time it can be too late. But this time there is help at hand.
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