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• 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

• Making sure your flat is fire safe

  Find out how to make sure your home is fire safe, and who is responsible for fire safety

• Changing to a water meter

  Your right to have a water meter installed and the pros and cons of switching to a meter and be charged for actual water usage compared to being charged based on the rateable value of the property

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• Ask the council to check if your rented home needs repairs

  If you’ve reported repairs to your landlord and they haven’t done anything, find out if the council can help you get the work done

• 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