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• Female genital mutilation (FGM)

  Female genital mutilation (FGM) is sometimes called 'female genital cutting' or 'female circumcision'. It's a criminal offence in the UK to carry out FGM

• Living together and marriage - legal differences

  Differences between how the law treats married and cohabiting couples including financial matters, responsibility for children and housing.

• Complaining about your private landlord

  Find out how to complain about your landlord if they’re not doing what they should and know when you can take court action.

• What is an administration order

  Explains what an administration order is, how to apply, how repayments work, whether part of your debt can be written off and what happens afterwards

• Understanding your tenancy agreement

  Check what terms can be in your tenancy agreement. Check documents your landlord needs to give you and what counts as an unfair agreement

• Deciding what to do about housing discrimination

  Find out what you can do to solve your problem and get everything ready before you take action

• Appealing a Housing Benefit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal if your local council won’t change a decision about your Housing Benefit

• Gathering evidence about housing discrimination

  Get the facts and evidence to help you take action about discrimination in housing

• If you get a ‘section 21’ eviction notice

  Check your section 21 notice is valid, find out what to do if it's not valid and make sure you know what to do before you need to leave your home

• Complain about a local council's involvement with your family

  Find out how to complain about your local council if they've been involved with your family