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Welcome to our News and Policy pages. Here you'll find news items, blog posts and articles about the Approved Code Scheme, the various Sectors covered by the Scheme, and other consumer protection issues. We'll also include details of any policy or public information campaigns that we - or our sector-specific Code Sponsors - are involved with.


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Energy-efficiency Pledges ‘Undermined by Lack of Consumer Confidence’

18 June, 2024 : New polling commissioned by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has revealed that Labour and Conservative party plans for renewed investment in domestic energy-efficiency initiatives are likely to be undermined by a lack of consumer awareness about available funding support, unfamiliarity with the technology involved, and uncertainty about where to find reliable tradespeople to carry out green energy upgrade work.

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