South Tyneside Community Legal Service
Know your rights
The following websites will help you find out information about the law, your rights and how to enforce them.
Young people | Older people | Housing | Consumer | Employment | Human Rights | Discrimination | Welfare Rights
- Just Ask!
The official Community Legal Service (CLS) website. Obtain advice about your legal problem using the Advice Search function. Also you can download the full range CLS Legal Information Leaflets.
- Advicenow
A project of the Advice Services Alliance, Advicenow brings together the best information on the law and your rights from a wide range of advice and information services. It provides accurate and up-to-date information on your rights and legal issues in England & Wales.
- Advice guide
Adviceguide provides practical, reliable, up-to-date information on a vast range of legal topics. Published by Citizens Advice.
- Connexions Service
The Connexions Service offers a range of guidance and support for 13 to 19 year olds to help make the transition to adult life a smooth one. Details of local services are available on the Connexions South Tyneside website.
- Connexions Direct
As part of the Connexions Service (above), Connexions Direct can help you with information and advice on issues relating to health, housing, relationships with family and friends, your career and learning options, money, as well as letting you know about activities you can get involved in.
- youthinformation.com
Website of the National Youth Agency (NYA) with information on over 1000 topics and contact details for more than 1200 national organisations
- Whatnow
Award-winning young persons website hosted by Lancashire County Council with information on a huge range of legal and other topics.
- Are you over 50
Published by the Department for Work and Pensions, "Are you over 50?" is a practical guide to advice, support and services across Government for people aged 50 or over.
- The Pension Service
The website of the Pensions Service contains information on a range of benefits issues for those who are retired, about to retire or planning their retirement.
- Pensioners' Guide
Published by the Pensions Service, the Pensioners' Guide website is designed to give pensioners information on a wide range of government entitlements and services.
- Shelternet
Shelternet aims to provide clear, accessible information for anyone facing a housing problem.
- Consumer Advice in South Tyneside
Lots of information on faulty goods, prize draws & scams, doorstep selling, consumer credit, faulty Goods and unsatisfactory services
- Confident Consumers
The Confident Consumers website provides policy information on a wide variety of consumer subjects covering trading standards, product safety, consumer credit and finance, consumer complaints and ways of resolving disputes.
- Office of Fair Trading
General advice on your consumer rights under the law and tips on how to complain or how to find someone who can help with your problem. There is also information on shopping, on credit and on getting out of debt.
- Consumers' Association
The website of the Consumers' Association provides information on a range of shopper and consumer rights.
- TIGER
A Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) website, TIGER provides guidance on different aspects of UK employment law from the national minimum wage to flexible working rights.
- Your
rights
Liberty's online guide to human rights law for England and Wales providing comprehensive information on 18 different rights and freedoms, with particular attention to the effect on these rights of the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights under the Human Rights Act 1998.
- Disability
Rights Commision
Provides guidance about disabled people's legal rights and what to do if you think you have been discriminated against because of your disability. - Commission
for Racial Equality
The Commission for Racial Equality site provides guidance for those suffering racial discrimination, harassment or abuse. - Equal Opportunities Commission
The Equal Opportunities Commission is the leading agency working to eliminate sex discrimination. Provides a range of guidance on how to identify if you have been discriminated against by virtue of your sex and sources of help.
- South Tyneside Welfare Rights Service
The Welfare Rights Service can offer free advice, support and representation on: Benefit entitlements; Employment rights including assistance with Employment Tribunals; Debt including County Court appearances and bankruptcy; Housing problems including eviction hearings; Child support.
- Department for Work and Pensions
Extensive information about the full range of benefits entitlements. Contains information on benefits/services available to those of working age, pensioners, families & children, disabled people and their carers.
- Jobcentre Plus
Information about the full range of working age welfare benefits.
- Child Support Agency
Information about the Child Support Agency and the assessment and payment of child maintenance.
- Inland Revenue
Covers Tax and National Insurance matters in addition to the range of Tax Credits available.
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