Regional Advice Networks (RANs) bring together social welfare information and advice providers, planners, funders and stakeholders from across the region.

They aim to facilitate access to justice, tackle poverty, inequality and financial exclusion, mitigate the negative impacts of austerity and Welfare Reform, and promote well-being by developing a strategic and co-ordinated approach to the provision of high quality social welfare information and advice services, with the objective of preventing poverty and tackling long-term harms.