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Johnny Timpson

@johnnytimpson1.bsky.social
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Chair, NED, Financial Inclusion Commissioner, Financial Services Consumer Panel Member, Trustee of Neurodiversity and Disability Charities, Adviser to the Surviving Economic Abuse Charity and Patron of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK 🇬🇧.

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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🔴Have you ever considered joining the statutory Financial Services Consumer Panel? … Two of my Panel colleagues are coming to the end of their terms of office and FCA are now seeking new members - Please find details below 👇 fca.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/FCA_Careers/...
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This would be welcome and in addition, let’s make support and pathways to it fit for purpose for carers of all ages with it underpin by national carer strategy, register and covenant plus an independent commissioner. Also needed is an overhaul of DWP vulnerable customer identification and support.
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
For information about the Panel see www.fca.org.uk/panels/consu...
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Financial Services Consumer Panel
Financial Services Consumer Panel The Financial Services Consumer Panel is an independent panel that represents the interests of consumers of financial services including small businesses. We provide ...
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Have you considered joining the Financial Services Consumer Panel ? … A number of my colleagues are sadly nearing the end of their terms as panel members and the FCA have today posted details of Panel vacancies … For details please see and share 👇 www.fca.org.uk/panels/consu...
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Austentatious it was fabulous to see you today (9/8) at the Edinburgh Fringe and thank you for bringing my suggestion of “Rachel’s Autumn Taxing Dilemma” to life - I dedicate this new Jane Austen title to Rt Hon Rachel Reeve’s MP and for a similar positive fiscal outcome www.austentatiousimpro.com
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Austentatious | Improvised Jane Austen | West-End & UK Tour
Austentatious is an entirely improvised comedy play in the style of Jane Austen with an all-star cast including Rachel Parris, Cariad Lloyd, Graham Dickson and Joseph Morpurgo. Performed in period cos...
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Having been laid before Parliament on 17th July the Financial Services Consumer Panel 2024/25 Report has been published this morning (6/8), please see and feel free to share it at … www.fca.org.uk/panels/consu... Personal disclosure - I am a member of the Panel. #ImproveOutcomes
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Having worked closely with Macmillan’s financial guidance, grants and policy teams, whilst the service closure is disappointing, it’s a call to action to now bring a coalition of the willing together to maintain support for vulnerable people. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Macmillan accused of ‘betrayal’ over plan to axe cancer benefits advice service
Exclusive: Charity says it is to scrap £14m-a-year specialist service as current arrangements are unaffordable
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
As always with AtW, we will have to wait and see how this is implemented and how individual Case Managers interpret the guidance…I urge caution and flexibility as we collectively seek to both get, and keep, Britain 🇬🇧 working and earning. #AtW #AccessToWork
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
- Monitors and monitor arms - Remarkable tablets and such productivity devices This change will potentially be significant for many applicants and employers - particularly so businesses given increased NI costs on UK firms …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
- Reading support devices (such as magnifiers, colour overlays, overlays to minimise glare/lighting) - Project management software - Voice recorders - Mental Health management software - Writing and reading support software…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
- Reading support devices (such as magnifiers, colour overlays, overlays to minimise glare/lighting) - Project management software - Voice recorders - Mental Health management software - Writing and reading support software - Laptops and laptop stands…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
- Headphones, headsets and microphones - Document holders - Back support, footrests, foot stools, arm rests, wrist support devices, etc. - Telephone adaptors…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In these latest updates AtW have clarified what they consider to be 'standard business items' which won't be funded, such as; - Chairs (including ergonomic) - Desks (including ergonomic, standing, adjustable, etc) - Keyboards (including ergonomic) - Mice (including ergonomic)…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
4. Removing flexibility to allow small increases in support without the need to raise a Change of Circumstance. Access to Work have always worked on the basis that they provide support 'above and beyond Reasonable Adjustments' and they don't fund 'standard business items'…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The areas of change are: 1. Special Aides and Equipment - more pushback onto employers. 2. Hard limits on Support Worker hourly rates 3. Stricter rules and criteria for awarding Job Aide Support Workers …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
And for more detail see Alice’s LinkedIn post …AtW are making changes to operational delivery, with s 'go-live' date of 6th May. They will affect all decisions made after this date, whether they are on new applications, reconsiderations, renewals or changes of circumstances…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
these changes are likely to be significant for everyone including claimants (new and current), employers, and service providers … Particularly as we collectively strive to both get, and keep Britain 🇬🇧 working … A short summary of the proposed changes follows…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧵 🚨 Breaking Access to Work News - changes coming from tomorrow, May 6th 🚨 I thank Disability Consultant Alice Hastie for flagging upcoming changes to DWP Access to Work schemes 'operational delivery'. In theory, there is no actual change in policy, but in practice …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Having been involved in several insurance industry initiatives with various Governments over the last 30 years I 💯 agree with the Health & Social Care Committee 👇 #LetsFixCare as in bringing the nation together to do so, we go a long way to aiding fix the UK 🇬🇧 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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MPs warn social care needs substantial investment to fix ‘broken’ system
Cross-party group’s report emphasises risk of failure after finding 3.5 million people not getting care they need
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Let’s create UK workplaces, safe places and ecosystems where everyone can thrive and both get, and keep … Britain working and earning. #LetsFixBritain 🇬🇧
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It has links to useful resources to enable employers to become more confident when attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining disabled people ( + personal disclosure, disabled people like me )…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
updated Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) guidance and information for employers … And it’s purpose of helping employers and managers improve their understanding of disability and assisting them recruit and support disabled people and those with long term health conditions in work …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
As Patron of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK 🇬🇧 www.vraassociationuk.com and a GAIN (Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment & Neurodiversity) www.gaintogether.org founder and board member I welcome this … www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Employing disabled people and people with health conditions
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I hold we should expect our government departments to set the gold standard in supporting vulnerable people, especially so where they sponsor essential UK sector regulators and require them to prioritise vulnerable customer identification and support interventions www.ftadviser.com/state-pensio...
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Timpson: DWP ‘must learn’ from FCA policies on protecting consumers
Britain’s financially vulnerable pensioners have been left at the mercy of “failures” in the
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are reaping the consequences of UK Government and societal failure to embrace prevention and supporting healthy ageing re all of the determinants of health.This compounded by our ageing UK that increasingly needs to work and care lacking a national care strategy. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Spending on disability benefits to soar by 2030 despite cuts
Government forecasts suggest the number of incapacity benefits claimants will hit 4.1m by the decade’s end despite contentious reforms
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thank you Impact Match for our discussion - To anyone with a disability or carer role and taking your first career step or returning to the workplace, I urge you to consider a career in insurance —For info see www.cii.co.uk/careers-in-i... impactmatch.global/2025/04/11/i...
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Impact Expert QT: Johnny Timpson
From founding groups to challenging insurance barriers, Johnny champions disability inclusion and pushes for progress, one step at a time.
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
📢 Today is #WorldConsumerRightsDay and the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection (#UNGCP) 🎉🌍 #ImproveOutcomes
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VRAUK @vrassociation.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“As Patron of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association, I am pleased to announce the guide ‘Help! What support can firms give disabled consumers and people in vulnerable situations?’ is now available at: shorturl.at/1qM0x @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social
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Vulnerability Support & FCA Review | Money Advice Trust
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I’m looking forward to joining Rt Hon Baroness Morgan of Cotes and the StepChange Debt Charity in the House of Lords tomorrow, Feb 11th, to discuss ‘Looking to this Parliament and Beyond: A Policy Blueprint to Boost Women’s Financial Resilience.’
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
#Build in the right places, #Build with the right materials, and #Build with resilience as standard.  Let’s #PreventForeseeableHarms, embrace #ResilienceByDesign and #ImproveOutcomes
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As Chair of 🇬🇧 #BuildingResilientHouseholdsGroup I support the ask being made of Government by insurance firms and independent insurance brokers that in considering planning reform, a three-step check is adopted to it to ensure new properties are climate-ready - The check being…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
puts additional pressure on already strained flood defences and drainage systems, which become overwhelmed in heavy downpours, increasing the risk of flooding to existing homes and communities in the immediate area…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🧵 I 💯 agree with Jason Storah, CEO of UK & Ireland general insurance at Aviva plc that the number of new homes being built on UK 🇬🇧 flood plains should be prevented from increasing as it not only puts new homes at risk but, and importantly… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones
Exclusive: Analysis suggests development in flood regions result of Labour push for 1.5m new homes in five years
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/02/2025
Scotland hit the ground running as Huw Jones hat-trick sinks Italy
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Scotland hit the ground running as Huw Jones hat-trick sinks Italy
* Scotland 31-19 Italy * Townsend’s side run in five tries to secure bonus point This is a test passed. Not the sternest test, it is true, certainly if ambitions of a first title of the Six Nations era are to be entertained seriously, but how easy to…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#AsOne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Personally and on behalf of my Vocational Rehabilitation Association and GAIN colleagues congratulations Prof Amanda Kirby on being appointed to lead the Government’s expert panel looking at improving the employment prospects and progression of neurodivergent people. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Employment prospects for neurodiverse people set to be boosted with launch of new expert panel
People who are neurodiverse will benefit from better employment prospects and more inclusive workplaces thanks to the work and advice of a new expert panel launched today [Wednesday 29 January].
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I am pleased to be joining the independent Financial Protection Panel working to ensure that the customers of UK TrustMark Registered Businesses receive appropriate financial protection in respect of works carried out around their homes. www.trustmark.org.uk/business/inf...
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Providing Financial Protection for Homeowners • TrustMark
TrustMark requires that all Registered Businesses provide a minimum two-year financial protection for all work carried out in and around the home. Find out more here
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
support for unpaid carers and and suggest Centre for Social Justice that you link this paper with your carer recommendations - These chiming with Lord Milburn’s Pathway To Work comments. #LetsFixBritain🇬🇧
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
people to have timely, safe and secure access to the regulated service provider vulnerable customer support that they are both entitled to, and paying for. Additionally in our ageing UK that increasingly needs to work and care, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) we need to transform…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
money worries are causing/compounding many of the physical and mental health issues that their patients are presenting with. Re Social Prescribing National Academy for Social Prescribing NHS UK Regulators'​ Network we need a UK Vulnerable Patient/Customer social prescribing partnership to enable …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
that far greater support is needed for both healthy ageing at work and rehabilitation. Re #Prevention and #SupportForHealthAgeing,this should be across all determinants of health including financial health - Particularly so with GP’s reporting that…
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
🧵 On behalf of my Vocational Rehabilitation Association colleagues thank you for your www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/chan... report Centre for Social Justice. I particularly agree with your #Prevention, #SocialPrescribing and phased work return comments and additionally suggest…
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Change the Prescription: A new approach to mental health
Is the mental health of the nation the worst that it has ever been, or is there something else going on? Our GPs certainly do not think the current approach is the right one.
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
On Burns night, and at all times, take heart friends of democracy from “A Man’s A Man For A’ That” www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mans-ma... … As relevant today as it was 1795 when the democracy, freedoms and rights we enjoy today were but abstract notions for the many. Slàinte Mhath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥃
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How do we tackle the disability employment gap? … For me … Embrace the social model of disability and ... Enable, don’t disable … Remove the barriers and we will have competitive, collaborative, and healthy companies, where employees learn from and with each other. www.ftadviser.com/work-and-wel...
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How to create a nurturing work environment
Companies may truly believe they are inclusive, but have they really focused on creating an environment that enables all staff to thrive?
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
💯 agree and it’s key that politicians and commentators realise that PIP is NOT an unemployment benefit, it does NOT “incentivise” people not to work plus, and importantly, PIP allows many people to find and/ or stay in work.
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
will have to pay more tax with this likely needing to be on both our income … and increasingly, our wealth. #LetsFixBritain 🇬🇧
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So, in our ageing UK that increasing needs to work and care, and do so for longer, let’s have the big, open and honest discussion via citizens assemblies on how we fix this, embrace #Prevention and healthy ageing across all aspects of health … And yes, let’s realise that we …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Government accepts that a cut to incapacity benefit does not remove the need for support, it simply transfers it from DWP to another Government Department, Local Government together with charities and support groups ( these likely to be in part directly or indirectly funded by Government) …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
of the determinants of health with this importantly including both our mental and financial health. It’s essential that this Labour administration returned on a promise of #Change faces into and tackles this, especially with the majority of people acquiring them.Key also that …
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Johnny Timpson @johnnytimpson1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
landing now and going forward are the consequences and costs of short term think ( particularly by HM treasury ). All to real now is the failure by Governments over the last 30 years to embrace #Prevention and #SupportingHealthyAgeingAtWork in relation to all…
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