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Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Apply for a Health and Care Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 Health and Care visa) if you're a medical professional who's been offered a job with the NHS, an NHS supplier or in adult social care - eligibility, fees,...
Tell the council if you're worried that an older person is being neglected, threatened or being taken advantage of - also known as 'elder abuse'.
Information for academies about how to claim for national non-domestic rates (NNDR).
Park (mobile) home owner rights and responsibilities - fees and repairs, selling or giving away a home and residents' associations, settling disputes
We give statutory advice to ministers on the risks to human health and the environment from the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). ACRE is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs...
How the government prepares and plans for emergencies, working nationally, locally and co-operatively to ensure civil protection in the UK.
Apply for an Overseas Domestic Worker visa if you've worked for your employer for at least a year - eligibility, fees, knowledge of English, your employment rights
Reforms to restrict care workers from bringing family members are now in force, while care providers are required to register if they are sponsoring migrants.
Check if you can claim a VAT refund using the DIY housebuilders scheme, if you’re converting an existing building into a dwelling.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is the UK regulator of work-based pension schemes. It works with trustees, employers, pension specialists and business advisers, giving guidance on what is expected of them. TPR is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the...
This note is part of the statutory guidance under s215 of the HRA 2008 (from 1 April 2024)
Emotional and practical support for bereaved families and loved ones is available from government departments and approved charities.
What to do if you go into a care home and you get benefits
We review decisions made by people or bodies with a public law function, eg local authorities and regulatory bodies. We can: carry out a judicial review of decisions made by other courts, tribunals and public bodies hear challenges to decisions...
Where local communities face drug litter problems, local agencies should respond by following this advice wherever possible.
This information sheet tells you how to apply the correct liability to domestic service charges from 1 November 2018.
Advice on actions you may need to take and the support available from the FCDO and others when a British person dies abroad.
Midlands Region, Judge A McNamara and Mr C Gell FRICS on 22 May 2019
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