The charity which provides financial help to over 21,000 UK families a year said in a post on twitter that it has reached “full capacity” and would not be taking on any additional clients until the new year.

The tweet read: “We’ve made the difficult decision to temporarily stop taking on new debt clients. Our debt service is at full capacity and we want to support our current clients with the high level of service we’re known for and see them become debt free very soon.”

IMPORTANT INFO (a thread): We’ve made the difficult decision to temporarily stop taking on new debt clients. Our debt service is at full capacity and we want to support our current clients with the high level of service we’re known for and see them become debt free very soon.

— CAPuk (@CAPuk) August 13, 2019

CAP told Premier that they wish to maintain a high standard of care for their existing clients and stated they would be unable to do this with integrity if they continued to take on new clients.

Other services run by CAP, including Job Clubs, Life Skills, Fresh Start and the CAP Money Course will not be impacted by this change.

The organisation have insisted this is a temporary measure and has directed those in need of debt advice to contact their helpline to find alternative service providers.

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Aysan, 22, and her brother Armin, 15, fled Iran in fear of religious persecution and domestic violence in 2018 and have been living in Glasgow since January.

The pair were previously told they would not be able to claim asylum in Scotland and were given 72 hours’ notice for deportation last Monday.

The home office now says it will hear their case.

The Christian siblings have been attending Castlemilk Parish Church since February and were both baptised there in June.

Parish Deacon Paul Cathcart, who has been campaigning for the asylum seekers to stay, told Premier the home office’s decision is great news.

“We’re absolutely delighted, it’s more than we could ever have hoped for.

“When we first began the process of trying to have the home office have another look at this case, we had hoped that they would review it but to have the outcome that we’ve had has just been absolutely brilliant.”

Cathcart said the media campaign launched by the Church of Scotland to contest the deportation garnered a lot of support and publicity which he thinks may have contributed to the government’s decision to hear the case.

During an interview with the home office, Aysan asked an official “Why are you sending me back to certain death in Iran?”

Cathcart attended the interview with her and said: “She would be stoned to death for committing apostasy. She’s terrified to go back and thinks there…

Around 300,000 teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland got their A results this morning, six weeks after the last of 800,000 A-level exam papers were sat in the UK.

Figures from this year’s results show the number of students scoring an A*- A grade has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade.

Northumberland Church of England academy trust’s chaplain Sally Milner told Premier if students’ grades weren’t what they were hoping for, not to worry: “There is a huge variety of courses available.

“Sometimes if you don’t get the grades you want for one course, it might be a slightly different course or a foundation degree, or maybe a different institution. Sometimes a couple of years down the line, you look back and see that actually, God was working through that and you realise ‘I’m better off here. I’m happier here. I’m thriving here.’

Part of her role is to support students, whether the grades students received were better, worse or as expected.

She had some advice for parents too, she said: “What they need is somebody to be there to say, I’m here and I’m listening. To hear them tell their story and pass them on to somebody that can help further, but to be there beside them to be with them.

“That’s what Jesus example is, isn’t it? He is there in the thick of it. That’s what the incarnation is about being with us, being beside us, not forsaking…