Local MP calls for increased Citizens Advice funding  

Glasgow North MP Ann McKechin has signed a pledge in Parliament to support the future of funding for the Citizens Advice service at a event to re-launch the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Citizens Advice. Citizens Advice Chair, John Gladwin, called on Parliamentarians to pledge the following: "I will do all I can to ensure that the Citizens Advice service has the funding it needs to continue providing vital and high quality advice and advocacy in my local community and across the country." Every year Citizens Advice Bureaux help over two million clients with over seven million problems, providing support to people who often have nowhere else to turn, from over 3500 community locations across the UK.  Funding cuts pose a significant threat to the Citizens Advice service and bureaux capacity to provide help to those who need it. Ann McKechin MP said: "In my Glasgow North constituency,...