Unmet demand is increasing community stress. Housing has always been one of the biggest issues for clients at Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead. In the past year problems brought to us have gone up by more than 15% on 2014. The main cause is that the number of homes available to people on low or middle […]
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Voluntary sector review puts spotlight on impact At Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead our trained volunteer advisers offer free advice to anyone who needs it. We measure the value in the relief of so many clients who need somewhere to turn. But value is also counted in another currency – social benefit. Whenever Citizens Advice […]
Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead February 2016. What we’ve been up to. Community liaison Surrey Armed Forces Community Covenant Building awareness Meeting Point Tadworth Justice needs a home Confirmation Redhill and Reigate courts will close Surrey CC budget settlement Our vice-chair of trustees makes a point PIP – new online help Step-by-step guide to making […]
Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead has hosted colleagues from nine CA offices in Surrey at a meeting on policy research and campaigns. Not everyone knows Citizens Advice does this work as well as providing the best (and best-known) advice service in the country. The purpose is to use our advisers’ wide experience of people’s problems to help councils, businesses and other […]
Top of the agenda at a meeting on 24 February of Redhill Citizens Advice volunteers was how to advise clients on claiming Universal Credit. The new benefit reached Surrey for the first time this month. It replaces six existing working age benefits which will be gradually phased out. To begin with just a small number of […]
Citizens Advice at Community Covenant local services briefing Our armed service personnel deserve the support of the whole nation. In Reigate & Banstead we make sure help is there through the Surrey Armed Services Community Covenant. Citizens Advice is signed-up and on Tuesday our senior debt caseworker Mandy Impey was a speaker at a Covenant event organised by R&BBC in the Old […]
Good news for anyone who needs to claim Personal Independence Payment. Citizens Advice has released a really helpful guide to completing the questionnaire that so often leaves people scratching their heads about the information needed. The guide covers each question in detail and will make life easier both for people applying on their own and advisers helping clients. Most important, according to the Citizens Advice […]
National group expects action to fill the gap when courts close. Last week’s government decision to close 86 courts in locations across the country has provoked a strong response from Citizens Advice at national and local level. In a statement national Citizens Advice called for use of technology such as video links to ensure people have […]
From January 2017 there will be no local court service in Reigate & Banstead. Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service yesterday confirmed the closure of Redhill Magistrates’ Court and Family Court and Reigate County Court and Family Court. In a parliamentary statement justice minister Shailesh Vara explained the government’s commitment to a modern courts estate in […]