If you are made bankrupt then you can expect that day to receive a telephone call from your local Official Receiver, who will introduce himself and confirm that he will be writing to you to fix an interview date.
The Official Receiver is a government official who is responsible for looking after and investigating your affairs [...]

We get lots of people who call the Help With Debt helpline, who have a large amount of debt, and who are seriously considering going bankrupt. For some of these people there is a real problem with the stigma of bankruptcy. This stigma is not helped by the assumption that the name of the bankrupt [...]