Advice and Benefits
Advice and benefits
For further information about Advice and benefits, browse the following list for the appropriate section.
Asylum and immigration
Benefits
| Backdating claims - housing benefits | Benefits appeals | Benefits overpayments | Council tax - account enquiries | Council tax - appeals | Council tax - backdated claims | Council tax - band reductions | Council tax - change of circumstances | Council tax - discount | Council tax - exemptions | Council tax - general information | Council tax - new claims | Council tax - overpayments | Educational awards and benefits - education maintenance award | Educational awards and benefits - school maintenance grant | Financial assessment - benefits | Fraud investigation | Free school meals | Housing benefit - change of circumstances | Housing benefit - new claim | Housing benefit renewal | School clothing grants | Special educational needs - disabled students allowance | Student awards | Student loan | Tax relief and benefits when hospitalised | Travel to school | Welfare rights |
Births
| Birth - re-registering | Birth - registering | Births historical searches |
Community advice
| Addictions | Advice for young people | Advocacy for social services clients | After and before school childcare | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Animal - fouling | Business rates - account enquiries | Business rates - general information | Business rates - relief | Childminding | Co-operative development | Community economic development | Community fire safety | Community grants | Community safety | Community strategy | Council housing - nuisance | Credit unions | Drugs advisory service | Employment advice | General legal advice | Housing - community safety | Interpreting and translating | Major accident hazards | Museums and galleries - general information | Needle exchange | Regeneration projects | Rehabilitation | Repatriation of a deceased body abroad | Repatriation of a deceased body from abroad to England or Wales | Sale of sundry items and publications | Venue hire and hall bookings | Voluntary organisations - funding | Welfare rights | Witness support |
Council departments
| Approved suppliers | Best Value performance information | Complaints - advocacy | Complaints - procedure | Departments | Generic change of circumstances form | Out of hours social services support |
Council tax
| Council tax - account enquiries | Council tax - appeals | Council tax - backdated claims | Council tax - band reductions | Council tax - change of circumstances | Council tax - charges | Council tax - discount | Council tax - exemptions | Council tax - general information | Council tax - new claims | Council tax - overpayments | Tax relief and benefits when hospitalised |
Data protection and freedom of information
| Data protection act | Freedom of information act | Generic change of circumstances form |
Deaths, funerals and cremations
| Burial | Burial and grave details | Buying a grave | Cremation | Death - registering | Deaths historical searches | Exhumation | Funeral - civil | Funeral - independent | Funeral - municipal | Funeral expenses | Help with bereavement | Mortuary service | Ordering a memorial | Repatriation of a deceased body abroad | Repatriation of a deceased body from abroad to England or Wales | Wills and testaments |
Domestic violence
| Harassment help | Protection of vulnerable adults |
Emergencies
| Arson reduction | Attending fires | Civil emergencies - trauma support service | Emergency plans for flooding | Environmental services - out of hours emergencies | Floods | Hazardous Chemical information | Infectious diseases - environmental services | Major accident hazards | Major emergency incident | Roads and highways - flooding - clearing drains and gullies |
Grants
| Business awards | Business grants | Business security grants | Educational awards and benefits - education maintenance award | Educational awards and benefits - school maintenance grant | European resource procurement - European funding | Free school meals | Grants and development fund | Home improvements - disability facility grant for a private property | Home improvements - home repair assistance grant | Home improvements - renovation grants | Private nurseries - nursery grants | Renovation grants | School clothing grants | Special educational needs - disabled students allowance | Sports grants | Student awards | Student loan | Travel to school | Voluntary organisations - funding |
Health and medical advice
| Accidents | Addictions | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Counselling | Dangerous structures and public safety | Drugs advisory service | Environmental services - out of hours emergencies | Health advice | Health and safety at work - regulation and inspection | Help leaving hospital | Hospice care - adult | Hospice care for children | Keeping warm in winter service | Licence - nursing agencies | Needle exchange | Occupational therapy | Rehabilitation | Residential care | Residential care for children | Support for adults with HIV | Support for children with HIV | Syringes - health and safety |
Housing advice
| Accommodation certificates - fitness for human habitation | Action plan orders for juveniles | Backdating claims - housing benefits | Benefits appeals | Benefits overpayments | Co-operative development | Communal heating charges | Community grants | Community safety | Council estates - parking | Council housing - current garage arrears | Council housing - evictions | Council housing - general information | Council housing - late tenancy arrears - rents | Council housing - nuisance | Council housing - tenancy issues | Council initiatives - housing improvements | Council lettings - garages | Credit unions | Crime | Empty properties | Estates management | Home exchange | Home ownership service - right to buy | Home safety | Homelessness - help and advice | Hospice care - adult | Housing - community safety | Housing allocations | Housing benefit - change of circumstances | Housing benefit - new claim | Housing benefit renewal | Housing rents | Housing repairs - communal areas | Housing repairs - council property | Housing repairs - decoration and disturbance allowances | Housing repairs - emergency out of hours repairs | Housing repairs - overdue repairs - discretionary allowance | Housing repairs - rechargeable repairs | Private property compulsory acquisition | Property alteration by tenant | Property enquiries | Rent setting | Representation in court | Residential care | Sheltered and supported housing | Sheltered housing for the homeless | Supported tenancies | Welfare rights |
Housing finance
| Backdating claims - housing benefits | Benefits appeals | Benefits overpayments | Council housing - evictions | Council housing - late tenancy arrears - rents | Fair rents | Home improvements - disability facility grant for a private property | Home improvements - home repair assistance grant | Home improvements - renovation grants | Home purchase grants | Housing benefit - change of circumstances | Housing benefit - new claim | Housing benefit renewal | Housing rents | Rent setting |
Legal advice
| Advocacy for carers | CCTV procedure for the release of evidence | Debt counselling | General legal advice | Legal aid | Power of attorney | Representation in court | Wills and testaments | Witness support |
Licences and street trading
| Entertainment | Fireworks registration | Licence - acupuncturist | Licence - animal movement | Licence - boarding animals | Licence - building materials | Licence - car boot sales | Licence - caravan site | Licence - credit | Licence - dog breeding | Licence - door supervision | Licence - entertainment | Licence - exotic dangerous and wild animals | Licence - explosives sales | Licence - food businesses | Licence - game dealers | Licence - gaming machines | Licence - hackney carriage - taxi | Licence - hackney carriage driver's | Licence - hairdressing | Licence - highway projection | Licence - house to house collections | Licence - liquor | Licence - non-medical poisons | Licence - nursing agencies | Licence - pet shop | Licence - petroleum | Licence - private hire driver's | Licence - private hire operator's licence | Licence - private hire vehicle - minicab | Licence - public entertainment | Licence - riding establishment | Licence - scaffolding and hoarding | Licence - school age children performances | Licence - scrap metal | Licence - second hand goods | Licence - skip operator | Licence - sports grounds | Licence - street cafe | Licence - street collections | Licence - street trading | Licence - tattoo, piercing and electrolysis | Market stalls | Skip permits | Street trading - illegal |
Marriages
| Civil partnerships | Copy certificates | Marriage - arrangement and ceremony | Marriage - historical searches | Marriage - registering a building of worship |
Parental support
| Baby-sitting service | Becoming a mentor to students | Complaints procedure - school incidents | Educating your child at home | Educational awards and benefits - education maintenance award | Educational awards and benefits - school maintenance grant | Free school meals | Language and cultural support | Obtaining a mentor | Psychology, psychiatry or social work services | School admissions - appeals | School clothing grants | School supervised medication | Special educational needs - assessment | Special educational needs - disabled students allowance | Special educational needs - SEN - statement | Special educational needs - transport | Student awards | Student loan | Travel to school |
Support groups
| Addictions | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Carer support groups and organisations | Community support groups and organisations | Drugs advisory service | Help with bereavement | Needle exchange | Rehabilitation |
Tourism and travel
| Local attractions | Tourist accommodation | Tourist information centres | Town twinning |
Trading standards
| Advice to business | Advice to consumers | Animal health and welfare | Complaints - advocacy | Debt and money | Description of goods | Fair trading | Food and agriculture | Food business - health promotion | Food labelling and composition | Licence - entertainment | Licence - liquor | Licence - petroleum | Misleading adverts | Nurses agencies registration | Petroleum filling stations | Product safety | Retail - trading standards | Weights and measures |
Voluntary organisations
| Addictions | Alcohol advisory service | Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse | Asylum seekers support | Carer support groups and organisations | Charities | Community grants | Community support groups and organisations | Drugs advisory service | Licence - house to house collections | Licence - second hand goods | Licence - street collections | Needle exchange | Rehabilitation | Student organisations - youth groups, clubs and activities | Support groups for children, young people and families | Witness support |
Youth support
| Advice for young people | Becoming a mentor to students | Complaints procedure - school incidents | Educational support for looked after children | Harassment help | Language and cultural support | Obtaining a mentor | Psychology, psychiatry or social work services | Student awards | Student loan | Young carers | Young people's drop-in activities | Young people's organised activities | Youth projects - volunteering |