Your rights

Laws

Laws affect many areas of our lives from crime and human rights to laws on family life and relationships. You may want help and advice with:

• Your legal rights when dealing with the police
• How the law affects you at different ages
• Laws around parental rights and duties, getting married or divorced, adoption etc
• Driving and the law
• Immigration and Asylum issues

You may be able to get public funding if you need to consult a solicitor and local advice centres can give you free help and advice with legal problems.

Have a look at the following websites:

• Lawstuff
• Crimestoppers
• Your Rights, At What Age Can I...?
• Advice Guide
• Care law
• Childrens Law Centre - The Law
• Childrens Law Centre - What age can I?
• Citizen card
• Citizens Advice Bureau
• Community Legal Service
• Crime Concern
• DTI: Employment Relations
• Employment Rights
• Find a Citizen Avice Bureau local to you
• NACRO - National Council for the Rehabilitation of Offenders
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• The National Youth Agency
• Local Government Ombudsman - Complaints about local government by children and young people