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Join the Money Guiders NI Network & Northern Ireland Trading Standards Service, to learn how to identify and assist scam victims.

About this event and organisation

Northern Ireland Trading Standards Service, will be joining us to discuss their role in promoting and maintaining fair trading, protect consumers and help reputable businesses to thrive within Northern Ireland.

We will look at the different types of specific scams and relevant case studies that staff within Trading Standards have dealt with, and how they affect the lives of the people who fall for them.

Attendees will learn how Trading standards can offer support ensuring that the most vulnerable in society are protected from the most unscrupulous and fraudulent practices as well as how to educate victims to prevent it happening again in the future.

Who is leading the session?

Yasmin Johnstone

Learning Outcomes

The session will empower money guiders to be aware of scams, who may be a victim of a scam and the impact that it can have on a victims’ life. Attendees will learn how to help prevent their services users in becoming victims through educational resources and a interactive case study.

Who should attend?

All money guiders and practitioners are welcome to attend this free event. This could include (but not limited to) staff in Northern Ireland who are supporting service users with difficult conversations and anyone offering guidance to improve the financial wellbeing of the users of their service.

Links to the Money Guidance Competency Framework

This event is designed to help you improve your money guidance practice, developing skills, confidence and knowledge around a specific money related area. 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.

Technical Domian 1. Knowing your customer Tier 1 and Tier 2.

Technical Domian 2. Debt Tier 1

Technical Domain 3. Borrowing Tier 1

Foundation Level - Signposting customers: all practitioners – no matter their job role – must be able to elicit simple, information from the customer in order to signpost them to appropriate sources of further support, advice or information.

Before attending this session, you could 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.

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The Money Guiders Programme

Money Guiders is a programme run by The Money Pensions Service MaPS, 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.