The Bailiff industry is supposed to be made up of tough and resilient people. Why then are we, apparently, such a soft target?
The core of the sector, the small to medium sized businesses that have been around for decades, is under pressure as never before. Setting aside the contrived and no doubt creatively edited "insider" television programmes of late, we continually struggle to convince the general public that our services are both necessary and properly carried out.
We hope that local authorities, themselves often caught up in negative reporting of debt collection, will join with us in calling for more open and transparent tender processes, more clarity on fees and more pressure on the Government to move matters forward.
We publish this at a time when progress with the Ministry of Justice towards an agreed fee structure seems to be meandering along in a somewhat pedestrian fashion, despite all parties accepting its end point as a desirable outcome.








