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Find out what you should do if you are leaving or have recently left the armed forces.

• Updated: 12 September 2024

How a prisoner is released - including Parole Board hearings, resettlement schemes and temporary release on licence

• When someone can leave prison

  When a prisoner is released depends on: the length of their sentence their…

• Temporary release from prison

  A prisoner may be allowed to leave prison for short periods towards the…

• Before someone leaves prison

  All prisoners get help preparing for life when they leave prison. In the…

• Support when someone leaves prison

  A person leaving prison may get the following financial support: Universal…

What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants

• Your employment contract

  If you want to leave your job, check your employment contract to find out…

• Giving notice

  You must give at least a week’s notice if you’ve been in your job for more…

• Payment during your notice period

  You’re entitled to your normal pay rate during your notice period,…

• Gardening leave

  Your employer may ask you not to come into work, or to work at home or…

• Restrictive covenants

  There may be terms in your contract that says you can’t work for a…

How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing

Smokers who choose to quit on 1 January could save a whole day of their life by 8 January, according to new research.

• Updated: 30 December 2024

Landlords need to follow certain procedures when evicting tenants - find out about eviction notices, harassment and illegal evictions, and going to court

Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle

Apply for indefinite leave to remain on the basis of your private life - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments

Information for landlords in England on tenant eviction: assured shorthold tenancies, including eviction notices, Section 21, Section 8, accelerated possession, possession orders, bailiffs