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Advisory groups

• Child Poverty Action Group
  The leading charity campaigning for the abolition of poverty among children and young people in the UK and for the improvement of the lives of low-income families.
  
  
• Citizens Advice Bureau
  The CAB helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice from over 3,200 locations, and by influencing policymakers.
  
  
• Commission for Racial Equality
  Provides legal advice and assistance to people who think they have been discriminated against.
  
  
• Dial UK
  A national organisation for a network of 139 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people.
  
  
• Disability Alliance
  Publishers of the Disability Rights Handbook, is regarded as the leading authority on social security benefits for disabled people. You can use this site to find regularly updated information about benefits, tax credits and community care as well as disability related campaigns and parliamentary news.
  
  
• Local Government Association
  The LGA represents the local authorities of England and Wales, it exists to promote better local government.
  
  
• National Council for One Parent Families
  One Parent Families welcomes the recognition that many lone parents face complex and difficult circumstances and that an unrestricted requirement to work is inappropriate.
  
  
• Rightsnet
  Provides access to the most up-to-date welfare benefit and tax credit information on the web.
  
  
• Royal National Institute for the Blind
  The RNIB is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems.
  
  
• Royal National Institute for the Deaf
  The RNID offer a range of services for deaf and hard of hearing people, and provide information and support on all aspects of deafness, hearing loss and tinnitus.
  
  

Legal groups

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute
  Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
  
  
• Butterworths and LexisNexis
  deliver comprehensive and authoritative legal, business, government and tax information worldwide.
  
  
• Community Legal Service Direct
  Need information about a legal problem? Want to know who and where your local adviser is? Does it cost anything and can you get financial help?
  
  
• Ferret Information Systems
  The largest company in Europe in the field of law dealing with welfare benefits and similar areas of determinative, compliance, and regulatory law.
  
  
• Infolaw
  The longest-established UK legal resources portal and offer a range of products and services to lawyers.
  
  
• The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
  This institutes function is to promote, facilitate and disseminate the results of advanced study and research in the discipline of law, for the benefit of persons and institutions in the UK and abroad.
  
  
• Judicial Studies Board
  Responsible for training full and part-time judges in England and Wales, and for overseeing the training of Lay magistrates and chairmen and members of Tribunals.
  
  
• The Law Society
  This society is the regulatory and representative body for 116,000 solicitors in England and Wales.
  
  
• Legal Action Group
  Aims to provide greater knowledge of the law and support to lawyers and advisers through its programme of publications and training.
  
  
• Legal Resources in the UK and Ireland
  Legal advice for individuals, lawers and companies.
  
  
• Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
  Published bi-monthly. The focus of the Journal is on current legal issues in judicial decisions, law reform, legislation, legal research, policy related socio-legal research, legal information, information technology and practice.
  
  

Other official sources

• Child Support Agency
  This site contains information for customers with maintenance calculated before and after 3rd March 2003.
  
  
• The Department for Work and Pensions
  Promotes opportunity and independence for all through modern, customer-focused services.
  
  
• The Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland
  Strategic responsibility for urban regeneration, community and voluntary sector development, social legislation, housing, social security benefits, pensions and child support.
  
  
• The Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board
  An independent statutory body set up in 1991 to advise the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Social Security Medical Service doctors on matters relating directly to Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance.
  
  
• Her Majesty's Court Service
  An executive agency of the Ministry of Justice and its purpose is to deliver justice effectively and efficiently to the public. We are responsible for the administration of the civil, family and criminal courts in England and Wales.
  
  
• HM Revenue & Customs
  The department responsible for the business of the former Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise. HMRC is responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue as well as paying tax credits and child benefit.
  
  
• The Independent Review Service
  Carries out independent reviews for dissatisfied customers of the discretionary social fund.
  
  
• The Library of Congress
  The nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress.
  
  
• The Northern Ireland Court Service
  Provides the administration for courts across Northern Ireland.
  
  
• The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
  Carry out independent investigations into complaints about UK government departments and their agencies, and the NHS in England - and help improve public services as a result.
  
  
• The Social Security Advisory Committee
  Main UK advisory body on social security matters.
  
  
• The Stationery Office
  The largest publisher in the UK by volume, publishing over 15,000 titles a year and providing a comprehensive range of document and publishing services.
  
  
• The United Kingdom Parliament
  Here you will find information about the United Kingdom Parliament, the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
  
  

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