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Resources for local authorities to support their roles as supervisory bodies for the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
Find software to file incorporations (registering a new company), changes to company details (such as directors and company secretaries) and mortgages and loan guarantees.
Form for sponsoring a person applying to come, stay or settle in the UK as an adult dependent relative. Also known as the "sponsorship undertaking form".
If you get help from social services, direct payments let you choose and buy the services you need yourself, instead of getting them from your council
How local councils work in England - types of council, decision-making, council finances, local councillors and making complaints
What happens if you're stopped by the police while driving - breath tests, motoring offences, faults with your vehicle, seizing your vehicle
DNA testing can be used in child maintenance or inheritance disputes, or applications for contact with a child or for a child to settle in the UK
Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Rules for tinted vehicle windows and what could happen if you break the rules
How to appeal a penalty if you’re a company director or an accountant who has received a penalty from Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
If you’ve missed Self Assessment deadlines get an estimate of how much you’ll need to pay in penalties and interest
Changing an inheritance after death (a 'variation') and how it can affect amounts of Inheritance and Capital Gains tax due
You may not have to pay the full fare at some river crossings, bridges and tunnels if you have a disability
What to do if you go into hospital and you get benefits
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Find out about your business rates bill, business rate relief or pay your bill through your local council
Includes how to report antisocial behaviour, like nuisance noise, vandalism or abandoned vehicles, reporting antisocial behaviour anonymously, getting support.
Adult Dependants' Grant for full-time students who financially support an adult - funding, how to apply, eligibility.
How to claim Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave: what you are entitled to, check if you're eligible and how to claim it.
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