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Archive for January, 2011
Jan 24
Jan 24
Free Answers to Brief Legal Questions: LawWorks Initial Electronic Advice
Initial Electronic Advice is an automated, web-based system, which allows LawWorks to submit a short legal query and have this answered by a volunteer lawyer via email. Not for profit organisations and advice agencies can register online to submit questions for entry into the system.
The main legal areas covered are: advertising, banking, building and construction, charity, clinical negligence, commercial, company, competition, construction, consumer, consumer credit, contract, corporate, costs, crime, debt, education, employment, energy, environment, EU, family, general litigation, health and safety, housing, immigration, insolvency, insurance, intellectual property, IT, landlord and tenant, mental health, mortgages, data protection, finance, insurance, pensions, personal injury, planning, property, public law, small claims, tax, telecoms, trust, welfare, wills and probate.
If you would like to register to submit questions, please visit www.lawworksiea.org.uk, where you can also see more information on the service itself.
Jan 24
Disability Living Allowance Reform – Public Consultation
This consulation seeks your views on the Government‘s proposals to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a new benefit – Personal Independence Payment. The Personal Independence Payment will continue to be a non-means tested, extra costs benefit but everyone receiving it will have to undergo a new assessment (including people currently receiving DLA).
The Personal Independence Payment, is scheduled to be introduced in 2013/14, when the DWP will begin reassessing the working age (16-64 year olds) caseload. The Government is also considering whether to reassess children and people aged over 65.
You can feed into the consulation via the Disability Alliance website.
Jan 17
INUF Relaxation Group
The Independent Newham Users Forum are running a relaxation group for Mental Health Service Users, Survivors and Carer’s.
Every Thursday 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Venue: Ithaca House, 27 Romford Road, Stratford, E15 4LJ
Jan 17
Equality Impact Assessment Toolkit
The Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) toolkit, used by officers to assist them in assessing equality implications for decisions relating to service and policy changes, has been updated. The Equality Act 2010 places a duty on public organisations to consider equality implications when making decisions and an EQIA is the most common method for recording how these implications have been identified, considered and where possible mitigated against. The toolkit is designed to be flexible in recognition that individual EQIAs will need to reflect the specific decision. All reports submitted for decision making will indicate whether an EQIA has been undertaken or state how equality implications have been considered. For further information please contact David Hodgkins or Keith Monery in the Corporate Planning and Partnerships Team at Newham Council – david.hodgkins@newham.gov.uk; keith.monery@newham.gov.uk; 020 3373 9932/8061.
Click here to download the toolkit.
