Thanks to local MP Lee Rowley (Minister for Housing) who visited us last week to find out more about the legal issues facing Derbyshire Residents. We were pleased to speak to Lee about the work that we do in Employment and Housing, alongside the other areas of Law that we cover

🏚️🏠Last week we celebrated 2 years of the Housing Repair Support Service.
A big thank you to everyone who came, to our funders and to Stephen Oliver and Kelly Tuck for their engaging talks.
We look forward to continuing to work to improve the conditions of local homes.

My daughter is in a university competition and all I’ve done all weekend is beg friends to vote. Im now going to beg on here. Please vote for Hannah design number 5. She has worked really hard on this.

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So proud of the Housing team Derbyshire Law Centre who saw 39 people today affected by the floods and many who have lost their homes. Fabulous partnership working with Chesterfield Borough Council

URGENT DROP IN SESSION for #Chesterfield residents displaced by flooding - please share!

Tomorrow - Tues 24 Oct for people that have been affected by the floods and cannot return to their home.

10am - 5pm, Customer Service Centre, S40 1AH
Please call us for appts after 5pm

Housing Law Training Conference - 10th NOVEMBER

With rising cases of homelessness, evictions and disrepair, join us for this workshop to gain essential insights on changes in Housing Law.

Find out more: lght.ly/3nejhb

#LegalAid lawyers haven't had a pay rise for 27 years. Along comes the Illegal Migration Act, and the government announces a 15% fee increase—but ONLY for work related to the Act. It does nothing for access to justice.
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I just tried to do TUAG at Arlesey.
Great Northern ignored my text again
The most dysfunctional call ever via Text Relay. No promise of assistance.
Stepped footbridge. No way to get to the correct platform, no signs what to do, and no call point.
No assistance turned up.
Abandoned.

⚖️ “Law Society analysis suggests that the number of civil legal aid providers could drop by a third by 2025.”

President Lubna Shuja tells Law Society Gazette that a 15% uplift is needed to stop #CivilLegalAid from completely vanishing.

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Pay from #LegalAid has not changed for 27 years.

It's an emergency situation. Legal aid providers are vanishing because it's simply not affordable to work—this means vanishing #AccessToJustice .

15% now is bare minimum to save the sector.
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Civil #LegalAid has already lost a third of its providers over the past decade. To lose a third of the remainder would be catastrophic for #justice . Recruitment and retention are already at crisis point!

Its not just rates, it's tendering and a recruitment/retention crisis that will destroy the #legalaid sector. Good legal aid practitioners do so much #probono to make their legal aid contracts work and their reward is often burn out.

This is something we are seeing a lot of across the West Midlands. People's have housing rights and too often they aren't being met until a local law centre intervenes.
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The hidden homeless families forced to live in hotels - video theguardian.com/cities/video/2…

We're one of the #Derbyshire charities campaigning to #SaveOurTicketOffices

We're asking the Rail Delivery Group East Midlands Railway (EMR) and N. Rail to reconsider ticket office closures & explain how they'll ensure that disabled & elderly users don’t experience more disadvantage 🧵1/3

If your landlord won't fic your repairs you need to keep as much evidence as possible and continue to try to contact your landlord. You should also speak to your council's private rental team.

#housingcrisis

Why ticket office are important. As a wheelchair user I decided to book assistance today. I arrive at KGX at 7 for a 7.30 train. I bought a sandwich and the team were ready to put me on a train. At that point the ticket machines do not easily sell GC tickets. So if I didn’t

Your landlord should do repairs within a reasonable amount of time depending on how urgent the problem is.

It's urgent if the damage puts people who live at the property at risk of serious harm. If it’s an emergency Landlord's should fix it within 24 hours.

#Chesterfield

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Hoping everyone in has an amazing time at #ChesterfieldPride

We’re here to talk about Discrimination and what free legal support is available ✌️

Amazing signer tonight Paul Heaton and singer. As a law centre discrimination solicitor really impressed ❤️

Discrimination isn’t always obvious. Microaggressions often take the form of casual comments, stereotyping, questioning or undermining your lived experience, it build up and have a big impact. If you're experiencing this at work, get in touch.

#microaggression