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About the workshop The workshop will take place on Wednesday, 8th October 10am-12pm on Microsoft Teams. The aim of the workshop is to demystify the complex complaints landscape and help you support your service users gain access to justice. Learn how to bring complaints to the Housing Ombudsman...

Includes information about the rights of working parents and carers to time off, pay and to work flexibly. Includes adoption leave and pay.

Information about democracy, government and elections. Your rights to vote.

Information about caring for the environment, access to the countryside, and building and planning.

How to tell if you are self employed. And the rules about working for yourself.

Your basic rights and how these rights are protected. Includes information about the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998.

Includes information on what rights you have not to be discriminated against in places like shops, public transport, health and social care and the legal system. For information on your right not to be treated unfairly in the workplace see Discrimination at work.

Our training and workshops make sense of common legal issues, such as benefits, housing and child protection, for people with no legal background.  They give you, and the people you support, the confidence to act, and make informed decisions. We deliver our workshops both as a one-off or as a programme so people can build their legal knowledge.

We used to provide our training courses under the name Law for Life.

Benefits for older people. For state retirement pensions, see 'retirement pensions'.