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Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support

• Overview

  Get support from Jobcentre Plus to help you prepare for, find and stay in…

• Job search and training

  Your Jobcentre Plus work coach can give you information about training and…

• Work experience and trials

  Contact Jobcentre Plus to find out about opportunities that can improve…

• Starting or running your own business

  You can get help to: start your own business develop your business, if…

• Help for parents and carers

  Your Jobcentre Plus work coach can tell you about support you can get to…

• Help with drug and alcohol problems

  You may be able to get extra support if you have drug or alcohol problems…

• Support when you start working

  Going back to work does not mean giving up all your benefits. Some…

Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected

• Overview

  If you’re running an employment agency or employment business you must…

• Records about work-seekers

  You only have to keep records of work-seekers if you take action to find…

• Records about hirers

  You must keep the following records about any hirers who contact you with…

• Storing and accessing records

  Client account records Records for entertainment and modelling agencies…

• Inspections and enforcement of the rules

  The Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate checks that employment…

How to use a before-and-after study to evaluate your digital health product.

• Updated: 30 January 2020

Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.

The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad.

Stoke Heath’s family strategy outlines how we support prisoners in our care to develop meaningful and constructive relationships with their family or significant others.

• Updated: 28 January 2026

FCDO travel advice for Cuba. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 30 January 2026

Apply for a Temporary Work – Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa for work experience, training, research or fellowship - eligibility, extend or switch, family members

Apply for asylum to stay in the UK as a refugee - eligibility, documents you need, how to apply, screening, asylum interview, help you can get, children

This page advises those with responsibilities for people currently sleeping rough. This includes local authority teams for emergency preparedness, public health and rough sleeping, as well as non-governmental organisations, including those providing temporary accommodation or street-based support.

• Updated: 19 December 2024