Lancaster Citizens Advice Bureau
Useful Links
You may find some of the following links useful:
www.adviceguide.org.uk/
Adviceguide provides information on your rights, including benefits, housing, family matters and employment, and on debt, consumer and legal issues.
www.lancaster.gov.uk/
This is the website for Lancaster City Council. Contains contact details for council departments and useful local information.
www.lancaster.gov.uk/General.asp?id=SX9452-A7804574
Lancaster Trading Standards website. The Trading Standards Section enforces various pieces of consumer protection legislation, as well as providing services like consumer and trader advice.
www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
This is the national Citizens Advice website which provides information about the service, how to get advice, our campaign and policy work, how to volunteer for the CAB service, how to support our fundraising work, job opportunities, press office media work
www.berr.gov.uk/
The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform works to create the conditions for business success and help the UK respond to the challenge of globalisation.
www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htm
The website for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs - includes information about the UK's customs and tax department and includes the prototype on-line VAT (Value Added Tax) returns system.
www.dwp.gov.uk/
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is here to promote opportunity and independence for all, help individuals achieve their potential through employment, work to end poverty in all its forms. Provides information on central government, employment, jobs and careers, civil service, benefits, working hours, terms and conditions, unemployment and jobseeking, families, children, benefits for families and children, disabled people, care for the disabled, media and the press, state, pensions, retirement, benefit and social security.
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/index.html
Information on jobs, looking for work, help with training and benefits for working age people
www.dcsf.gov.uk/
The Department for Children, Schools and Families leads work across Government to ensure that all children and young people stay healthy and safe; secure an excellent education and the highest possible standards of achievement; enjoy their childhood; make a positive contribution to society and the economy and have lives full of opportunity, free from the effects of poverty.
www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm
Easy access to the public services you use and the information you need, delivered by the UK government
www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk/
A free and confidential advice service paid for by legal aid - all of our help and advice is completely government funded.
www.acas.org.uk/
Acas is the independent and impartial Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Get advice on workplace issues including flexible work, sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave, dismissal, redundancy, lay offs and
short-time working
www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/Pages/default.aspx
Equality and Human Rights Commission ...championing equality and human rights for all. The new commission is working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.
