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Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.

• Updated: 21 July 2023

Landlords need to follow certain procedures when evicting tenants - find out about eviction notices, harassment and illegal evictions, and going to court

• Rules your landlord must follow

  Your landlord must follow strict procedures if they want you to leave…

• Accelerated possession

  Landlords can sometimes evict tenants using ‘accelerated possession’. This…

• Eviction court hearings

  If your landlord goes to court to evict you, there will be a ‘possession…

• Eviction notices

  If you do not leave your home by the date given in an outright possession…

• Harassment and illegal evictions

  It’s a crime for your landlord to harass you or try to force you out of a…

Representatives of both sectors in newly formed expert working groups on AI and copyright.

• Updated: 16 July 2025

Protect your right to live in a registered or unregistered property owned by your spouse or civil partner during a divorce or separation - getting home rights, after a continuation order

Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.

• Updated: 5 June 2023

If you live in England and work you may be able to get free childcare for a child aged 9 months to 4 years old. Check if you're eligible and how and when to apply.

• Updated: 7 October 2024

Indefinite leave to remain or enter the UK if your relationship has broken down because of domestic violence or abuse - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help