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• When can you use the public sector equality duty?

  Explains when you can use the public sector equality duty to challenge decisions or policies which discriminate against you, or put you at a disadvantage

• Managing affairs for someone else

  Information on managing someone’s affairs including ordinary, lasting and enduring power of attorney, and mental capacity

• Making a will

  Information about making a will and how to change or end a will. How to protect your will against being challenged

• Challenge the council’s decision about your housing application

  Check what to do if you disagree with the council's decision. Check how to ask for a review - this depends on why you’re challenging the decision

• Challenging what the CMS says you should get

  Find out how to ask the CMS for a review or a variation, for example if your circumstances have changed

• Creditor takes money from your bank account

  Information on third party debt orders to take money owed to you to pay creditors, how they affect your bank account and what to do if a frozen bank account leads to hardship

• Getting your tenancy deposit back if you rent privately

  Find out how to get your deposit back from your landlord when your tenancy ends and whether your landlord can keep your money to pay for damage or breakages

• If you're going to be deported from the UK

  Your rights to appeal being deported from the UK and how to leave voluntarily