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Main MenuOn Friday 29th November we’re hosting a professional development workshop focused on Housing Law. This workshop provides local legal practitioners with the opportunity to gain essential insights on:
We are running eVisa clinics across Derbyshire to help support the Government’s transition to a digital immigration system. UK Visas and Immigration are creating a digital immigration system. This means they are replacing physical documents with an online record of your immigration status. This is known as an eVisa.
You don’t need to make an appointment – just turn up to a clinic!
Derbyshire Law Centre are a leading Law Centre providing specialist legal advice to communities across Derbyshire. We are adaptive, innovative and energetic, with a collective management structure and multiple funding streams.
A vacancy has arisen within the debt unit, for an experienced caseworker to provide money and debt advice. Ideally, the successful applicant will be able to start immediately but we will wait for the right person. We are seeking applicants who have completed one of the MaPS approved Individual Quality Framework Learning Pathways and are a Debt Relief Order Intermediary.
We know that connected working between services helps clients to find the most efficient solutions to issues they’re experiencing and would like to invite local caseworkers, councillors and officers to find out more about our service to help signposting and referral across Derbyshire.
Please sign this petition and help save our vital voluntary and community services.
Derbyshire County Council is proposing cuts to discretionary funding. This means that key community groups and local charities like the Derbyshire Law Centre are at risk of underfunding.
Over the next 6 months we will be running new community drop-in sessions to help people access legal advice more quickly. These sessions will be across Chesterfield at Gussie’s Kitchen @ St Augustine’s Church, The Haven at Barrow Hill and at Loundsley Green Community Centre.
You don’t need to make an appointment – just turn up to talk through your legal issue.
At the start of 2024 Madison and Kate started their training contracts to become solicitors with the Derbyshire Law Centre. Their training is fully funded and will last two years, covering seats in the different areas of Law that we cover. We asked them a few questions about how they’d reached this point and what they wanted to get from the training period:
Application Form – Housing Erewash Job Description Housing Caseworker_Erewash_Dec 2023 Person Specification_Dec 23 Recruitment packDerbyshire Law Centre are a leading Law Centre provide specialist legal advice to communities across Derbyshire. We are adaptive, innovative, and energetic, with a collective management structure and multiple funding streams.
Over the past year Derbyshire residents, like those across the UK, have faced rising costs for life’s essentials. the social and economic impacts of the Cost of Living crisis have sent waves through our local communities and we are seeing an ever increasing demand for legal support in all areas.
Derbyshire Law Centre is working with a collection of Derbyshire based charities to campaign to keep Rail Ticket Offices open. The charity group has written an open letter to Jacqueline Starr, CEO of the Rail Delivery Group outlining the concerns that the closures would have on elderly and disabled users.
The letter calls on the Rail Delivery Group, as well as East Midlands and Northern Rail, to reconsider the plans to close ticket offices and explain what steps they will take to make sure that vulnerable users don’t experience more disadvantage in rail travel. Additionally, it outlines how important physical ticket offices are to people who regularly face disadvantage because of their disability, age and increasing exclusion from the digital world.
