The Welsh Consumer Council has set up a series of pages on consumer education. They're aimed primarily at school students and teachers, but are useful for anyone with an interest in anything from consumer law to labelling, and from money management to bullying. It contains information about the work of the Council including current research projects. The Consumers' Association is a subscriber-led organisation which researches consumer issues, publishes information and lobbies on behalf of consumers. The Advertising Standards Authority is a self-regulatory, industry body that administers the British codes of advertising and sales promotion .
Departments enforce the Trades Descriptions Act and other consumer legislation.
Links to Trading Standards Departments throughout the UK are found at Trading Standards Central . Consumer media Three BBC consumer programme sites, The Really Useful Show , Watchdog and Shortchange . The Financial Services Act provides the legislative framework for regulation of the financial services industry. It seeks to combine the flexibility and expertise of industry self-regulation with the authority and discipline of statutory regulation. The OFT has to examine the rules of and other arrangements of these organisations from a competition viewpoint.