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• Updated: 2 December 2025

Includes Right to Buy, shared ownership, getting repairs and housing benefit

• Updated: 27 February 2026

How to apply for a council house or flat - housing waiting lists, types of tenancies, the Right to Buy scheme and repairs, complaining about the council

• Apply for a council home

  You apply for council housing through your local council. Each council has…

• Types of tenancy

  Your tenancy agreement is a legal document and tells you all the rules…

• Repairs and maintenance

  You’re likely to be responsible for things like: fixing a curtain or…

• Complaints

  Follow these steps if you have a problem with your council housing:…

• Council housing fraud

  You’re likely to lose your tenancy and you could lose your right to…

• Buy your council home

  Under the Right to Buy scheme, you can apply to buy your council home if:…

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

• Updated: 26 February 2026

Apply for a state secondary school place through your local council

Finding childcare, financial support for childcare and childcare for school-age children

• Updated: 13 November 2025

Website of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

• Updated: 26 June 2025

Information for men invited to an NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening appointment.

• Updated: 23 June 2025

This document helps people currently applying for asylum to find support for physical or mental health needs.

• Updated: 11 February 2025

• Updated: 7 January 2026