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Home - Under 25's
If your landlord wants you out, it’s important to know your rights. Here’s what to do if you’re being evicted.
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Home - Shelter
Shelter offers free, expert housing advice to anyone – no matter what their situation is
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Home - St Helens Gateway
Housing Options - St Helens Council is committed to ensuring that all its residents receive the appropriate advice and assistance in accessing the right type of housing to meet their needs.
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Home - Home Swapper
The UK's leading mutual exchange service
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Home - Under One Roof
Under One Roof is a service for letting rented homes in St. Helens, Merseyside
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Home - Helena Homes
A thriving and expanding business. We’ve come a long way, since our inception in 2002 and have ambitious plans to go even further. Our core business is built on solid foundations but we’re focused on developing new ways of working, delivering greater efficiencies and maximising our impact for the future
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Home - St Helens MBC
We are no longer a landlord of housing. The stock was transferred to Helena Partnerships in 2002. We are still responsible for managing a housing register of people wanting to move to affordable housing and have a legal responsibility to produce an Allocations Policy and Tenure Strategy.
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Home - GGHT
Golden Gates Housing Trust is the largest Registered Provider of Social Housing in Warrin​​gton, With over 8,600 homes.
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Home - SHAP
Our mission is to promote social justice and to combat poverty and homelessness. Our aim is to enable homeless, vulnerable, or disadvantaged people to take control of their own lives and to receive high quality housing and support.
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Home - Housing Net
Housing Net is the single-most comprehensive source of data on over 2000 UK Housing Associations
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Home - Homeless UK
Find advice services, day centres, hostels and more
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Home - CAB
Citizens Advice Bureau is full of information on everything from renting or buying a home to finding a job
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Benefits - Universal Credit
Useful information about Universal Credit from the UK Government
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Benefits - Useful calculators
Here is a comprehensive list of online tools, planners and calculators to help with everyday life.
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Benefits - Entiltlement guide
Benefit Entitlement Guide - make sure you're getting what you’re entitled to.
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Benefits - Money advice service
Where to get help and advice about benefits.
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Benefits - CAB
These pages give you information on benefits and tax credits if you are working or unemployed, sick or disabled, a parent, a young person, an older person or a veteran.
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Benefits - Carers UK
Help with benefits - Working out what benefits or tax credits you might be entitled to can feel like a battle. Having the right information and support can make a huge difference.
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Benefits - Liverpool City Council
Our Benefits Maximisation Service can provide advice, guidance and assistance with the full range of welfare benefits.
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Benefits - St Helens Gateway
Where can I find advice about benefits for older people? Face to face and telephone information, advice and support around benefits for older people can be found in St Helens.
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Health - Get Connected
Get Connected is a free, confidential helpline service for young people under 25 who need help, but don't know where to turn
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Health - YoungMinds
YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of young people. They can help with whatever's on your mind
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Health - Change4Life
Would you like tips to help to make changes for a healthier future? Joining Change4Life will help you!
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Health - PAPYRUS
PAPYRUS exists to give young people hope and to provide confidential support during difficult times
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Health - Pregnancy
The NHS can advise you on everything from eating right during pregnancy to caring for your baby. Click here for professional health advice
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Health - Talk to Frank
Friendly, confidential drugs advice
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Health - NHS Livewell
Make healthy living easy with free professional advice on a range of topics from the NHS
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Health - Family Action
Family Action transforms lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation across England
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Health - Safeguarding
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) provides advice and support on keeping adults and children safe
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Health - Advice for young people
A young person's guide to health & well-being
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Health - Get It On
This handy website provides advice on everything from relationships and safe sex to planning for pregnancy. Click here to access local sexual health services for Runcorn, St Helens and Widnes
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Health - Time to change
Time to Change is England's biggest programme to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination.
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Health - Sexual Health
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health and wellbeing services for over 275,000 young people UK-wide, each year. Get in touch with them here
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Health - Respect yourself
Respect Yourself is a registered UK charity, helping young people make their own decisions using others’ past experience and wisdom.
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Health - Fit for travel
Travel health information for people travelling abroad from the UK
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Health - NHS A-Z
Health A-Z - Conditions and treatments
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Digital - Digital eagles
Barclays Digital Eagles will give you practical and helpful advice on all your online issues.
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Digital - UK Safer internet
The internet provides lots of opportunities for chatting with friends, playing games and creating your own content. To help you get the most out of the internet, we've brought together the latest information on staying safe online.
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Digital - Getonline@home
The easy place to get your first, very affordable and internet ready computer.
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Digital - Thinkuknow
CEOP's Thinkuknow has the latest information on the websites you like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what's great value for money and more
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Digital - WI-FI hotspots
Find a WI-FI hotspot in your area.
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Digital - Get safe online
Our website is a unique resource providing practical advice on how to protect yourself, your computers and mobiles device and your business against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other problems
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Digital - Digital garage
Make the most of the web. Get the digital skills you need to grow your business, your career or just your confidence. We'll set you up with a personal learning plan, completely free.
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Digital - UK online centres
We provide UK online centres partners with digital skills courses via the Learn My Way website, training and capacity building advice.
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Food - St Helens Foodbank
We provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust.
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Food - Trussle Trust
The Trussell Trust’s 400-strong network of foodbanks provides a minimum of three days’ emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK.
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Food - Family feeds for £20
Recipes, tips and advice to help feed a family on a budget
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Food - Cheap & Cheerful
Quick,low price recipes from professional chef Jamie Oliver
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Food - Student recipes
Quick and easy recipes for students
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Food - BBC Good Food
Great recipes for great quality home cooking that everyone can enjoy
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Food - Fiver Feeds
Fiver Feeds teaches you how to cook healthy and nutritious meals big enough to feed a whole family for under £5
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Food - My Supermarket
My Supermarket works for the customer, making sure shoppers get the best value for their household
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Food - Budget cooking
Here's a handy BBC guide to good food on a budget
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Food - Love Food
Love Food, Hate Waste aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste and provide you with top tips to help the cause
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Food - Budget cooking
Cooking on a budget
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Food - Healthy recipes
Planning and cooking healthy family meals can seem like a big task, but these easy-to-master recipes will make it much simpler to prepare quick and healthy balanced meals to enjoy
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Money - Advice Service
Free and impartial money advice, set up by government. Explore advice and guides to help improve your finances, with support in person, over the phone and online
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Money - Student Finance
Information, help and advice on student finance from the UK Government
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Money - Debt Line
Use this website for help and support to take the right steps when dealing with debt problems
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Money - StepChange
Free advice on problem debt based on what's best for you
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Money - Freebies
Whether it's free flights, gym passes, cash or books, it's all available for free if you know where to look. Money Saving Expert can point you in the right direction
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Money - Credit
This useful website is all about money and consumer rights for young people like you
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Money - Financial advice
Make Money Make Sense will help you demystify the world of money and help you get to grips with your finances
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Money - Debt Help
The UK Government has put together debt help schemes to help people resolve their debt problems. Find out more here
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Saving on bills - Energy saving trust
Energy saving trust, helping everyone save energy every day.
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Saving on bills - Home heat helpline
The Home Heat Helpline advises people worried about paying their energy bills and keeping warm during the winter. It also gives advice to low-income households in urgent need of heating help and advice. .
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Saving on bills - Warm home discount
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Saving on bills- Energy supply
Look here for help with problems with your energy bill or struggling to pay your bills.
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Saving on bills- Energy Efficiency
GGHT - Making your future a brighter one, we are committed to energy efficiency and helping our tenants reduces the impact of rising energy prices.
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Savings on bills - Citrus Energy
Citrus Energy is a social enterprise that exists to help domestic and commercial energy consumers make genuine savings on gas and electricity costs through our truly impartial advice and recommendations.
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Savings on bills - uSwitch
uSwitch is an online and telephone comparison and switching service that helps you to compare prices on a range of products and services to get the best deal for you
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Saving on bills - ofgem
We’ve created an easy online guide to help you compare tariffs and get a better deal on your gas and electricity bills: Be An Energy Shopper
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Education - Gov.UK
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Education - Performance tables
Find schools and colleges in England and view school performance, characteristics, workforce, finance and Ofsted inspection outcomes.
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Education - Schools directory
UK Schools & Colleges Database, contains more than 31,000 UK state and independent Schools and Colleges
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Education - Ofsted
Find an Ofstead inspection report.
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Child care - North West
We have 11 nannies in North West listed in our online nanny directory. If need to find a nanny in North West then browse the results below. The list includes full time nannies, part time nannies, live in nannies, live out nannies and night nannies.
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Childcare - Liverpool
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Childcare - St Helens
Find local childcare
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Childcare - St Helens
Did you know that some 2 year old children can access 15 hours per week of free early Small girl reading at nurseryeducation?
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Childcare - Warrington
Private day nurseries offer both full and part-time care for children under the age of five.
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Work - Apex
Apex Trust promotes employment as a route out of offending for people with a criminal record. Our programmes helps those with complex multiple needs to overcome the barriers they face in moving from dependency on welfare and crime to becoming self-sustaining members of communities.
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Work - DBS checks
Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks are now called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. You may need to check someone’s criminal record if they apply: for certain jobs or voluntary work, eg working with children or in healthcare, to foster or adopt a child
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Work - Criminal record
Help and advice for ex-offenders
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