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Community Legal Advice helpline
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- About Community Legal Advice helpline
- Did you know?
- How can practitioners help promote the helpline?
- For more information
About Community Legal Advice helpline
Community Legal Advice helpline provides those eligible for legal aid with specialist independent advice about:
- debt
- education
- benefits and tax credits
- employment
- housing problems.
Did you know?
- we are shortly offering a full specialist casework service to deal with family problems
- we have extended our opening hours
- people can now request a call back
- we offer a 3 way translation service in 170 languages plus type talk
- our website is available in 10 languages
- we offer British Sign Language (BSL) services and a full advice service via web cam
- all of our specialist providers are subject to peer review.
How can practitioners help promote the helpline?
- encourage staff to refer clients to Community Legal Advice
- hand out our business cards
- visit the Community Legal Advice website
- use Community Legal Advice to help you manage your capacity and appointment times
- refer to Community Legal Advice if your own organisation does not specialise in the services that CLA offers
- use Community Legal Advice for people who have mobility problems or whose first language is not English
- refer those who face problems with travel to Community Legal Advice
- put up posters or display information leaflets in your waiting areas - order them online
- link your website to the Community Legal Advice website
- keep up-to-date with developments by signing up for the Community Legal Advice quarterly newsletter.
For more information
Read the flyer about Community Legal Advice under Documents.
Visit the Community Legal Advice website.
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Last updated: 05 August 2009