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Citizens Advice [n 1] (previously Citizens Advice Bureau [9] [n 2] and also known as Cyngor ar Bopeth [n 3] in Welsh [10]) is a British independent organisation specialising in confidential information and advice to assist people with legal, debt, consumer, housing and other problems in the United Kingdom. [11] [12]
Citizens Advice Edinburgh (CAE), is a registered charity (number SC038195), based in Edinburgh, Scotland.Founded in 1939, Citizens Advice Edinburgh is a member of the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, and provides free, confidential, independent and impartial advice to Edinburgh residents.
CAS launched a national helpline in 2005, called Citizens Advice Direct, staff were based in Glasgow city centre. [1] In 2012 a study showed that most of CAS's activity was the provision of advice across five areas: benefits, debt, employment, housing and relationship. [2]
Nimrod Ben-Cnaan of the Law Centres Network, maintained the legal aid market was, "failing" since cuts, "shattered local ecologies of advice," and that it is vital law centres are rebuilt. [23] Malcolm Richardson, retired magistrate said legal advisers must increasingly guide litigant in person through court proceedings. He said, "It puts all ...
There are citizens advice bureaus in a number of places in Australia. In the state of Victoria they are now generally referred to as "community information and support services" rather than "Citizens Advice". Their umbrella and peak body is Community Information & Support Victoria (CISVic). [2] Local centres are located at:
The first use of 3-1-1 for informational services was in Baltimore, Maryland, where the service commenced on 2 October 1996. [2] 3-1-1 is intended to connect callers to a call center that can be the same as the 9-1-1 call center, but with 3-1-1 calls assigned a secondary priority, answered only when no 9-1-1 calls are waiting.
The Law Centres Network estimated that between 2013 and 2017, law centres lost more than 60% of their legal aid income and more than 40% of total income, and 11 centres had to close, leaving only 45. The North Kensington Law Centre's total income dropped from £900,000 in 2010 to about £300,000 in 2017, and in that year it was overstretched ...
It is an umbrella organisation that represents advice organisations throughout the world. It works at a European level with the European Citizen Action Service . [ 1 ] Citizens Advice International aims to promote free advice services [ 2 ] and provide support to Citizens Advice organisations throughout the world. [ 3 ]