11:00am, 13 July 2026

An insightful live panel discussion exploring how organisations can design products and services that genuinely meet the diverse needs of customers, especially those who may be vulnerable.

This useful guide helps businesses look more carefully at how they communicate with customers, where understanding can break down, and what teams can do to make decisions easier, clearer and more accessible. It covers both practicalities and compliance considerations, with guidance on Consumer Duty requirements, reviewing communications, checking understanding in real conversations, using feedback and testing, and gathering evidence that your approach is working.

Bereavement calls are never all the same, even when the reason for contact sounds similar at first. This guide gives staff a set of detailed personas to help them understand how differently grief, shock, stress and terminal illness can show up when someone needs to close an account or explain what has happened. It is useful for training, team discussions and call handling practice because it moves past a one-size-fits-all approach. The guide includes 12 personas, examples of helpful first responses, examples to avoid, and signposting that can be shared after the conversation.

Economic abuse can be hard to spot, especially when the signs show up as unusual account activity, restricted access to money or behaviour that looks easy to explain away. This guide helps teams recognise economic abuse as a form of coercive control and respond in a way that is careful, practical and supportive. It is designed to help customer-facing staff notice warning signs, raise concerns sensitively and understand what support may be available. The guide covers common types of economic abuse, possible indicators, how to respond to customers and where to signpost for specialist help.

When staff are dealing with sensitive or difficult customer conversations, they need guidance they can use there and then. This essential bundle brings together 15 practical quick guides to help teams respond with more confidence, more consistency and a better understanding of what support may be needed. The bundle covers a wide range of real customer situations, including vulnerability, bereavement, suicidal thoughts, anger, understanding, neurodiversity, older customers, first time customers and respectful communication. It's been designed to give frontline teams simple, useful guidance they can apply straight away, while also helping organisations strengthen training and day-to-day customer support.

Some of the clearest signs of vulnerability show up before a tenant ever says they need help. This useful guide highlights three early data signals that can point to hidden vulnerability in housing, helping teams spot risk sooner and respond with more care, curiosity and practical support.

If residents do not fully understand what they have been told, they may miss important actions, struggle to access support or end up at greater risk of harm. This guide helps social housing providers improve resident understanding by looking at both the clarity of communication and how to check that key information has actually landed. The guide covers reviewing written communications, checking understanding in conversations, using tenant feedback and user testing, and gathering evidence to show where improvements are being made.

If you want to improve support for vulnerable customers, it helps to know where the gaps are. This vulnerability strategy checklist gives you a practical way to review how well you are currently meeting the needs of vulnerable customers and where more work may be needed. The checklist is built around the key areas that shape fair treatment in practice, including awareness, staff capability, product and service design, customer service, communication, and monitoring.

As more services move online, accessibility cannot be treated as an extra. This guide helps organisations think more carefully about how customers access digital services, and what can get in the way when people do not have the right skills, devices, connectivity or accessible content.