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Information about the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
Check out schemes for crime prevention and community safety with your council
What happens if you're given a community sentence or community service. Find out about Community Payback and the rules of your community sentence.
You may get a community sentence if you’re convicted of a crime by a court…
Community Payback is unpaid work like: removing graffiti clearing…
The treatment or programmes you get are intended to help with problems…
What you can and cannot do while on a community sentence is decided by: a…
Community sentences for young people are different from those given to…
Information about the Renters’ Rights Bill.
Find volunteering opportunities, and volunteer rights, pay, expenses, age limits, criminal record checks.
Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate
Our advice notes aim to promote meaningful community engagement and support the understanding and delivery of ‘locally relevant social value’ linked to housing, planning and development.
Find out about your human rights and how they are protected.
Advice for organisations and people using road transport operators based abroad to transport goods into, out of and within the UK.
A new grant to support the essential work of the voluntary and community sector to deliver a sustained reduction in homelessness and rough sleeping.
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