1. Are you having problems at work, are you on sick leave or have you recently been dismissed?
2. Are your problems connected to illness or disability?
If the answer is yes to these questions then the Legal Advice Centre can offer you free legal advice and casework assistance with these problems?
We are a registered charity based in the Bethnal Green area. We employ a solicitor that can offer free advice to people who live and/or work in Tower Hamlets, Hackney or Newham and who are having problems at work due to illness or disability.
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Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Monday, 6 December 2010
Homelessness Services in London Cut - Homeless Link Press Release
Risks to key services for homeless people at a time when rough sleeping in the capital is rising
London Councils’ Grant Committee has announced that it will fund only 5 out of 33 services for single homeless people from April 2011. Instead it will repatriate funds to the boroughs where services face an uncertain and highly vulnerable future.
On October 19th the Executive Group of London Councils Grants Committee decided they would continue to fund priority services that could only be delivered on a pan London or multi borough basis. They specifically identified single homelessness services as services that these criteria. The full Grants Committee yesterday decided not to continue funding 28 services at a cost of £3.2 million. These services will be at the mercy of decisions of boroughs which are, in many cases, already proposing cuts of 25-40% to the homelessness services they already fund.
One example is the London Street Rescue service, operated by Thames Reach across the whole of London. This reaches rough sleepers and operates a single number helpline for the public to ring if they see someone sleeping rough who needs help. This service will lose the 25% of its funding it currently receives from London Councils. Despite its work in 32 London boroughs it has been designated as "essentially local" in nature by London Councils.
Another example is New Horizons Youth Centre which is to lose 75% of its public funding at a stroke. It works with young people who have fallen through every other element of the welfare state and helps move them away from homelessness. It was only last year that a £1.6 million Lottery capital grant helped them to create a state-of-the-art facility with kitchen, launderette, counselling rooms, recreation, computer and literacy provision, and a lot more that enables them to get young people housed, employed, educated and rehabilitated. Now the work that takes place there is in jeopardy.
The London Councils’ Leaders Committee meets on 14 December and this is the last chance to ask them for a rethink.
Jenny Edwards, Chief Executive of Homeless Link, the national network representing London’s frontline homelessness charities, said,
“The loss of strategic funding for London’s homelessness services used by a highly mobile population just makes no sense. These are priority services at a time when the flow onto the streets from the recession has increased by 20% over the last 3 months. Due to heroic efforts this has not led to an increase in the numbers sleeping out on any night, but its touch and go whether we can stay ahead. This is the worst time to threaten the future of services that are helping London’s most vulnerable people keep away from a life without shelter at great risk to their health and even life.
We have joined with the Mayor of London to lobby London Councils for the re-categorisation of services which clearly support individuals from across the capital, not just individual boroughs.
We call for an urgent rethink by the Leaders’ Committee”
London Councils’ Grant Committee has announced that it will fund only 5 out of 33 services for single homeless people from April 2011. Instead it will repatriate funds to the boroughs where services face an uncertain and highly vulnerable future.
On October 19th the Executive Group of London Councils Grants Committee decided they would continue to fund priority services that could only be delivered on a pan London or multi borough basis. They specifically identified single homelessness services as services that these criteria. The full Grants Committee yesterday decided not to continue funding 28 services at a cost of £3.2 million. These services will be at the mercy of decisions of boroughs which are, in many cases, already proposing cuts of 25-40% to the homelessness services they already fund.
One example is the London Street Rescue service, operated by Thames Reach across the whole of London. This reaches rough sleepers and operates a single number helpline for the public to ring if they see someone sleeping rough who needs help. This service will lose the 25% of its funding it currently receives from London Councils. Despite its work in 32 London boroughs it has been designated as "essentially local" in nature by London Councils.
Another example is New Horizons Youth Centre which is to lose 75% of its public funding at a stroke. It works with young people who have fallen through every other element of the welfare state and helps move them away from homelessness. It was only last year that a £1.6 million Lottery capital grant helped them to create a state-of-the-art facility with kitchen, launderette, counselling rooms, recreation, computer and literacy provision, and a lot more that enables them to get young people housed, employed, educated and rehabilitated. Now the work that takes place there is in jeopardy.
The London Councils’ Leaders Committee meets on 14 December and this is the last chance to ask them for a rethink.
Jenny Edwards, Chief Executive of Homeless Link, the national network representing London’s frontline homelessness charities, said,
“The loss of strategic funding for London’s homelessness services used by a highly mobile population just makes no sense. These are priority services at a time when the flow onto the streets from the recession has increased by 20% over the last 3 months. Due to heroic efforts this has not led to an increase in the numbers sleeping out on any night, but its touch and go whether we can stay ahead. This is the worst time to threaten the future of services that are helping London’s most vulnerable people keep away from a life without shelter at great risk to their health and even life.
We have joined with the Mayor of London to lobby London Councils for the re-categorisation of services which clearly support individuals from across the capital, not just individual boroughs.
We call for an urgent rethink by the Leaders’ Committee”
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Cuts in Council Spending
BBC political editor Nick Robinson says: The chancellor has just announced cuts in council spending by over a quarter over four years. He also announced that he was removing ring-fenced grants. It reminds me of the old Whitehall saying "Governments with money centralise and claim the credit; those without decentralise and spread the blame"
Ministry of Justice cuts
The Ministry of Justice cuts announced mean that its budget will fall from around £9.5 billion to £7 billion over four years.
This is a huge cut and will be dependant on ministers achieving changes to sentencing, prisons and legal aid funding.
This is a huge cut and will be dependant on ministers achieving changes to sentencing, prisons and legal aid funding.
budget news - social housing rents
Terms for existing social housing tenants and their rent will be unchanged, with new tenants offered intermediate rents at around 80% of the market rent. The chancellor forecasts this will allow the building of up to 150,000 new affordable homes over four years.
Ministry of Justice faces cuts of 14,000 full-time staff
The BBC's Danny Shaw says a leaked memo from the Ministry of Justice, dated 14 October, says the department faces cuts of 14,000 full-time staff - with most of this coming on the front line, where 11,000 posts will go. Most of the cuts in the first two years, it adds.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Life in the UK
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are currently conducting a research project on the effects of the "Life in the UK" test, for a comparative report on citizenship tests commissioned by the European Commission. Our project is being run by Bernard Ryan, Reader in Law at the University of Kent.
For the project, we would like to interview organisations which advise migrants about settlement and/ or naturalisation. In particular, we hope by this means to find out about groups who have particular difficulty with the test.
Should you be able to participate, the interview itself would last from 30 to 45 minutes, and we are flexible as to when it would take place. If possible, we need to have the interviews completed by mid-July. We would also be happy to provide you with the questions in advance
We very much hope that you may be able to assist us.
Yours sincerely,
Anika Haverig (contact: A.Haverig@ent.ac.uk)
Nadine El-Enany (contact. N.El-Enany@lse.ac.uk)
We are currently conducting a research project on the effects of the "Life in the UK" test, for a comparative report on citizenship tests commissioned by the European Commission. Our project is being run by Bernard Ryan, Reader in Law at the University of Kent.
For the project, we would like to interview organisations which advise migrants about settlement and/ or naturalisation. In particular, we hope by this means to find out about groups who have particular difficulty with the test.
Should you be able to participate, the interview itself would last from 30 to 45 minutes, and we are flexible as to when it would take place. If possible, we need to have the interviews completed by mid-July. We would also be happy to provide you with the questions in advance
We very much hope that you may be able to assist us.
Yours sincerely,
Anika Haverig (contact: A.Haverig@ent.ac.uk)
Nadine El-Enany (contact. N.El-Enany@lse.ac.uk)
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