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• Water shortages - restrictions to your supply

  When your water company can impose temporary hosepipe bans and drought orders during water shortages, for how long, and what your rights are when this happens

• If there's a child protection plan for your child

  Explains what a child protection plan is, why it might be put in place to protect a child, what it covers, reviews and when it may end

• If you've overstayed your visa or leave

  If you’ve overstayed your visa or leave, you have 90 days to leave the country. You can't usually extend your visa or leave once you've overstayed

• The rules about making a court claim

  The Civil Procedure Rules and the Practice Direction on pre-action conduct are outlines. These must be followed if you take your consumer case to court

• Is your home at risk if your partner is bankrupt?

  Explains what could happen to your home, if you own or rent it jointly with a partner who goes bankrupt

• Check how bankruptcy affects your job

  Find out how bankruptcy affects your job, and what work you can do after going bankrupt

• Paying for sewerage

  What you are paying for when you pay public sewerage charges including water drainage, surface water drainage, highway drainage and land drainage

• If you've been accused of child abuse

  What to do if you are accused of abusing or neglecting a child, including the importance of seeking legal advice

• Court orders to protect children

  Check the different types of court order social services can apply for if they think your child is at risk

• Taking your paid holiday

  Find out what notice you have to give, when you can take holiday, what notice your employer has to give you if they refuse, whether you can carry over holiday from one year to the next