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Education rights for children and young people. How to deal with problems with education, including funding and special educational needs. Also covers continuing education after you have left school, and training for adult learners.
What financial help is available to help you stay in or return to education. How to apply for grants and loans if you are going into higher education. Financial help you can get when you are at school or college; and what state schools are able to charge for.
Older people's rights. Information about benefits, retirement age, pensions and getting care services at home.
Who can vote in elections, the rules for elections and how you register to vote.
Your rights when dealing with electrical services in your home, including wiring and repairs.
Your rights when dealing with electricity suppliers.
Your rights when shopping on the internet.
The rules about using electronic mail, including your rights about using email at work.
Short-term housing that you can get if you are in urgent need, for example, bed and breakfast hotels and hostels. Councils often provide short-term accommodation to homeless applicants, while they look into what further help they can provide.
Your rights to take part in discussions with management about activities at work, including the right to elect employee representatives on works councils.
Your rights at work to fair pay, to have time off for specific reasons, to be treated fairly and to receive special treatment when pregnant.
Problems at work, such as unfair dismissal, or discrimination. Your rights to time off, maternity rights, and conditions of employment.
Tribunals that deal with employment problems including unfair dismissal, failure to pay agreed wages and discrimination.
Information about all types of entertainment, including dancing, theatre, cinema, the arts and ballet.
Information relating to the protection of the environment and your rights to use the countryside.
Information about caring for the environment, including using alternative energy sources.
Your rights if your landlord asks you to leave your home. What you can do if you are going to be evicted, or if you think you have been illegally evicted.
What to do if your landlord asks you to leave your home, or you are in danger of having your home repossessed.