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• Social services complaints - before you start

  What to consider before making a complaint about a service received from your local authority social service department

• Appealing a parking ticket if you have a Blue Badge

  When it's worth appealing a parking ticket if you're a blue badge holder

• Using direct payments for care

  What direct payments can be used for, covering employing carers direct, buying social care services through an agency, paying for equipment and short stays in care homes

• Extra benefits and help you can get while on Attendance Allowance

  Guide to extra benefits and help you can get whilst getting Attendance Allowance

• Rape and sexual assault

  Information on rape and sexual assault, including definitions, sources of specialist help and further information

• Check if you can take time off work

  Check your right to time off work, including paid and unpaid leave. You have the right to take time off work in certain circumstances, your 'statutory rights

• Check what compensation you can get for unfair dismissal

  Find out how to work out your basic and compensatory awards, when your compensation could be increased or decreased, if you need to repay any welfare benefits

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax