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Learn how good edge design can create woodlands that fit well into the landscape, benefit management and resilience, enrich biodiversity and provide inspiring places for people.

• Updated: 16 April 2025

Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - reasons you can be dismissed, unfair and constructive dismissal and what to do if you're dismissed

• Overview

  Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - they do not always…

• Reasons you can be dismissed

  There are some situations when your employer can dismiss you fairly. Not…

• Unfair and constructive dismissal

  In certain situations, you may be able to take legal action if you’re…

• What to do if you're dismissed

  If you’re threatened with dismissal (or are dismissed) you can get help…

Using a registered lasting power of attorney (LPA) - attorney duties, starting to act, gifting, ending, revoking an attorney.

• Overview

  You can make decisions on someone’s behalf if they appoint you using a…

• Property and financial affairs attorneys

  As a property and financial affairs attorney, you make (or help the donor…

• Health and welfare attorneys

  As a health and welfare attorney, you make (or help the donor make)…

• Use a lasting power of attorney

  If you’re an attorney or the donor on an LPA, you can use this service to:…

• Prove you're an attorney on a lasting power of attorney

  Any company or organisation you deal with on behalf of the donor can ask…

• Attorney records and duties

  Keep a record of: important decisions you make and when you make them, for…

• Changes you need to report

  You must tell the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) if: you or the donor…

• When a lasting power of attorney ends

  A lasting power of attorney (LPA) can end in several ways. Usually it ends…

Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.

Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.

• Updated: 7 April 2017

Give information to consumers when selling food that is loose or hasn't been prepacked by another producer.

• Updated: 3 January 2017

Married Couple's Allowance could reduce your tax bill each year you're married or in a civil partnership if one of you was born before before 6 April 1935

Being made redundant - rights, statutory payments you're entitled to, notice periods and consultation, finding a job.

Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.

• Updated: 16 June 2025

This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.

• Updated: 27 February 2025