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Embedding research at the heart of the UK’s financial capability strategy
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Driving the UK Financial
Capability agenda
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17th November 2016
Nick Watkins
Head of Insight & Evaluation, Money Advice Service
nick.watkins@moneyadviceservice.org.uk
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Strategy launched
in October 2015
The Financial Capability Strategy
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Critical role for insight and evaluation
Definition and
measurement
Diagnostics
Sharing the
evidence
Commission at scale Test and learn
Identify potential
solutions
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The Adult Financial Capability survey
• Nationally representative survey of UK adults aged 18+
• Fieldwork conducted online (74%) and face-to-face
(26%)
• Total of 5,603 interviews
• 3,461 nationally representative
• 2,142 boost interviews in devolved nations and with
18-24 year olds
• Extensive questionnaire development
• Interviewing April – July 2015, conducted by GfK
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Saving and budgeting
A wealth of data
Personal wellbeing,
confidence and ability to
pay bills
27 minute interview
130 questions
Future planning and goals
Attitudes to
money
Product holding
and credit usage
Demographics : income,
housing tenure, presence of
children etc
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Some headline findings
Levels of financial capability are too low
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Making sense of the data
Demographics
and other
characteristics
Financially
capable
behaviours
Wellbeing
measures
Financial
enablers
and
inhibitors
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What influences current wellbeing?
Demographics
and other
characteristics
(35%)
Financially
capable
behaviours
(25%)
Other things
(43%)
Financial
enablers and
inhibitors
(33%)
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The ‘additive’ effect on wellbeing
Demographics and
other
characteristics
(13%)
Financially
capable
behaviours
(25%)
Other things
(43%)
Financial
enablers and
inhibitors
(19%)
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Financially capable behaviours
Financially
capable
behaviours
Managing money well day-today
• Managing credit use
• Active saving
• Keeping track
Managing and preparing for life events
• Building resilience (savings and protection)
• Working towards goals
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Financial enablers and inhibitors
Financial
enablers
and
inhibitors
Mindset
• Financial
confidence
• Savings mindset
• Considered spending
Ability
• Financial numeracy
Connection
• Digital engagement
• Financial engagement
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The building blocks of financial capability
Managing
credit
Financial
engagement
Active saving
Financial
Confidence
Building
resilience
Financial numeracy
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Concept of collective impact
Success criteria
• Common agenda
• Shared measurement systems
• Mutually reinforcing activities
• Continuous communication
• Backbone support
organisation
Source : Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Collective impact in practice
Financial Capability Board and Steering Groups
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Building and sharing the evidence base
MAS research
• Financial Capability Survey
and analysis
• Financial resilience
segmentation
• Over-indebtedness model
• Programme of ‘deep dives’
• Literature reviews
• Other research
28 IMPACT
signatories
50 toolkit
users
80 case studies or reviews
Further 200+ to add
www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/corporate/research
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Grant
funding
• £7m programme
• To generate evidence around specific ‘what works’ questions
Expert
support
• Will use MAS evaluation resources
• Support from both MAS and Evaluation & Learning Partner
More
evidence
• Should fill gaps in the evidence
• All uploaded to our Evidence Hub
Increased
capability
• Will ‘pump-prime’ the sector’s evaluation practice
What Works Fund
Launched June 2016
409 Expressions of Interest received