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Welfare
rights links | Social
policy and campaigns links
Welfare
rights links
Online
welfare benefit and tax credit guides/information
Citizens Advice
online guide. Has a large section on benefits.
www.adviceguide.org.uk
Department for
Work and Pensions. Useful A-Z guide to benefits.
www.dwp.gov.uk
HM Revenue and Customs tax credits pages. Find out whether you qualify for tax credits and how to apply.
www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/index.htm
Community Legal Advice. Find an adviser online or get advice direct over the telephone. www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
Advice Services
Alliance information including benefits.
www.advicenow.org.uk
Low Incomes
Tax Reform Group – provides detailed information on tax and
tax credits for people on low incomes, including pensioners, students
and low income workers.
www.litrg.org.uk
Benefits information/advice/campaigning organisations
Every Disabled Child Matters
www.edcm.org.uk
Disability Information
and Advice Line services. Information on disability benefits and
services.
www.dialuk.info
Information
on disability benefits and services.
www.disabilityalliance.org
Information
on benefits and other services for older people. Links to separate
websites for Wales, Scotland and NI.
www.ace.org.uk/AgeConcern/National_Age_Concerns.asp
Information
on benefits and services for lone parents.
www.gingerbread.org.uk
General advice/information/campaigning organisations
Information
on debt issues.
www.nationaldebtline.co.uk
Information
on housing issues. Links to separate websites for Wales, Scotland
and NI.
http://england.shelter.org.uk
Free independent advice from the European Commission about EU citizens' rights, such as residence and social security rights. http://ec.europa.eu/citizensrights/front_end/index_en.htm
Websites
useful to advisers
Welfare rights
website for advice workers.
www.rightsnet.org.uk
Tribunals Service Upper Tribunal website; includes information about appealing against decisions of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support).
www.administrativeappeals.tribunals.gov.uk/index.htm
The Independent Review service (IRS) is an independent statutory body that carries out impartial reviews of discretionary Social Fund decisions made in Jobcentreplus offices. IRS Inspectors have the power to change wrong decisions and often pay more money.
www.irs-review.org.uk
Software for
benefits advice.
www.lissongrovebenefits.co.uk
Children’s Legal Centre
www.childrenslegalcentre.com
The Refugee
and Asylum Seeking Children's Project (Children's Legal Centre)
www.childrenslegalcentre.com/Refugee+and+Asylum+Seeking+Children/
Liberty's human
rights advice service for the voluntary sector
www.yourrights.org.uk/vas/
Advice and consultancy
for advice agencies and solicitors' practices challenging decisions
by public authorities.
www.publiclawproject.org.uk
Association of Charity Officers; includes searchable directory of member "benevolent" charities, and a telephone helpline to link individuals in need with the most appropriate charity.
www.aco.uk.net/index.asp?contentid=120&menuid=44
Turn2us is a charity working to help people in financial need, and those who support them, access the money available to them – through welfare benefits, grants and other financial help.
www.turn2us.org.uk
Family Rights Group offers specialist information about families' legal rights and what they can expect of the social care system. www.frg.org.uk
Consumer Focus, the consumer champion for energy users, offers a searchable knowledge base of energy issues including regulatory requirements, tips on how to resolve complaints, and contact details for companies. www.consumerfocus.org.uk/en/content/cms/Energy_Help___Advice/Your _energy_question/Your_energy_question.aspx
The Financial Ombudsman Service runs a technical advice helpline for community and advice workers, as well as providing information for consumers of financial services. www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/faq/consumer_advisers.html.
Social
policy and campaigns links
Central
Government departments
Department for
Work and Pensions
www.dwp.gov.uk
Pension Service
www.thepensionservice.gov.uk
Job Centre Plus
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/cms.asp?Page=/Home
Department for
Work and Pensions press releases
www.dwp.gov.uk/newsroom/press-releases/
HM Treasury
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
Inland Revenue
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk
HMRC
press releases
http://nds.coi.gov.uk/clientmicrosite/default.aspx?clientID=257
Home Office
www.homeoffice.gov.uk
UK Border Agency asylum support pages
www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylum/support/
Department of
Health
www.doh.gov.uk
Department for
Education and Skills
www.dfes.gov.uk
Department for
Education and Skills press releases
www.dfes.gov.uk/pns/newslist.cgi
Children and
Young People's Unit
www.allchildrennis.gov.uk
Office of the
Deputy Prime Minister
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about-cabinet-office/cabinet-office-ministers/nick-clegg.aspx
Cabinet Office
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Cabinet Office strategy unit
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/strategy-unit
10 Downing street
www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
Sure Start
Sure Start Children's Centres
Devolved
Parliament and Assemblies
National Assembly
for Wales
www.assemblywales.org
Welsh Children’s Commissioner
www.childcom.org.uk/
Children and
Young People
www.wales.gov.uk/subichildren
Funky Dragon
www.funkydragon.org
Welsh Children's
Commissioner
In English
www.childcom.org.uk/index.php?lang=en
In Welsh
www.complantcymru.org.uk/cy/
Welsh Indices
of Multiple Deprivation
wales.gov.uk/topics/statistics/theme/wimd/?lang=en
Scottish Parliament
www.scottish.parliament.uk
Scottish Government
www.scotland.gov.uk/Home
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD
Northern Ireland
assembly
www.niassembly.gov.uk
Northern Irish
Department for Social Development
www.dsdni.gov.uk
Northern Ireland
commissioner for children and young people
www.niccy.org
Parliament
and associated bodies
Work and Pensions
Committee
www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/work-and-pensions-committee/
Treasury Committee
www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-archive/treasury-committee/
Public Accounts
Committee
www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/
Health Committee
www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/health-committee/
National Audit
Office
www.nao.org.uk
Campaigning
organisations
Fair Pay Network
www.fairpaynetwork.org
Trades Union
Congress (TUC)
www.tuc.org.uk
Action for Children
www.actionforchildren.org.uk
Oxfam
www.oxfam.org.uk
Refugee Council
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Joint Council
for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
www.jcwi.org.uk
Barnardo's
www.barnardos.org.uk
Local Government
Association
www.lga.gov.uk
Disability Alliance
www.disabilityalliance.org
Gingerbread
(Formed from the merger of the National Council for One Parent Families and Gingerbread)
www.gingerbread.org.uk
Family Action
www.family-action.org.uk
Citizens Advice
www.citizensadvice.org.uk
End Child Poverty
Coalition
www.endchildpoverty.org.uk
Shelter
www.shelter.org.uk
Save the Children
www.savethechildren.org.uk
National Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
www.nspcc.org.uk/html/home/home.htm
Scottish Low
Pay Unit
www.slpu.org.uk
National Children's
Bureau
www.ncb.org.uk
Children in
Wales
www.childreninwales.org.uk
End Child Poverty
Network Cymru
www.childreninwales.org.uk/areasofwork/childpoverty/endchildpovertynetwork/index.html
Children in
Scotland
www.childreninscotland.org.uk
Children in
Northern Ireland
http://www.ci-ni.org
UK Public Health
Association
www.ukpha.org.uk
Northern Ireland
Anti-Poverty Network
www.niapn.org
4Children is
a national charity dedicated to creating opportunities and building
futures for children
www.4children.org.uk
Access to Justice
Alliance
www.accesstojusticealliance.org.uk
UK Coalition
Against Poverty
www.ukcap.org
Key
statistical sites
English Indices
of Multiple Deprivation
www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_control/
documents/contentservertemplate/odpm_index.hcst?n=4610&l=3
Department for
Education and Skills statistics
www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/contents.shtml
Department of
Health statistics
www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/fs/en
Statistics from
the Scottish Government
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics
Northern Ireland
Statistics from the Department for Social Development
www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research.htm
Department for
Work and Pensions research
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/
Office for National
Statistics
www.statistics.gov.uk
Inland Revenue
statistics
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats
Home Office
statistics
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/statsprog1.html
Monitoring Poverty
and Social Exclusion
www.poverty.org.uk/intro/index.htm
Think
tanks
The King's Fund
www.kingsfund.org.uk
Adam Smith Institute
www.adamsmith.org
New Economics
Foundation
www.neweconomics.org/gen
CentreForum
www.centreforum.org.uk
Centre for Policy
Studies
www.cps.org.uk
Demos
www.demos.co.uk
Policy Studies
Institute
www.psi.org.uk
Institute of
Economic Affairs
www.iea.org.uk
Fabian Society
www.fabians.org.uk
New Policy Institute
www.npi.org.uk
Institute for
Public Policy Research
www.ippr.org.uk
Social Market
Foundation
www.smf.co.uk
Institute for
Fiscal Studies
www.ifs.org.uk
Joseph Rowntree
Foundation
www.jrf.org.uk
Academic
and research
Intute is a free online service to help find the best web resources for study and research, created by a consortium of seven UK universities. Specialist topics include social welfare. www.intute.ac.uk/socialwelfare
Economic and
Social Research Council
www.esrc.ac.uk
An Introduction
to Social Policy
www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/contents.htm
Institute for
Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
www.iser.essex.ac.uk
Townsend Centre
for International Poverty Research
www.bris.ac.uk/poverty
Centre for Research
in Social Policy
www.crsp.ac.uk
Social Policy
Research Unit
www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru
Centre for the
Analysis of Social Exclusion
http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case
Family Budget
Unit
www.york.ac.uk/res/fbu
Social Policy
Association
www.social-policy.com/
Social Policy
website portal
www.socialpolicy.net
National child
development survey
www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/studies.asp?section=000100020003
National Evaluation
of Sure Start (Birkbeck College, University of London)
www.ness.bbk.ac.uk
Prof John Veit-Wilson's website with downloadable publications: his book Setting adequacy standards: how governments define minimum incomes and papers on various aspects of poverty including minimum income standards and adequacy.
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.veit-wilson/
International
and comparative
Luxembourg Income
Study. Comparative analysis of poverty and incomes.
www.lisproject.org
UNICEF
www.unicef.org.uk
Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
www.oecd.org
CPAG New Zealand
www.cpag.org.nz
Eurostat
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home
Irish Government
Office for Social Inclusion
www.socialinclusion.ie
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