Wolverhampton Citizens Advice Bureau

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Wolverhampton CAB
District Office, 2nd Floor,
26 Snow Hill, Wolverhampton,
WV2 4AD

Telephone: 01902 572 199
Fax: 01902 572 204
E-mail: district@wcabx.org

Please note these details are for administrative contact only.
No email advice can be given.

Advice

The Citizens Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.

The service aims:

To provide the advice people need for the problems they face
To improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives

We can offer Advice, Information, specialist help (in some areas) or signpost you onto other organisations that can help. The areas we can help with are:

Benefits – entitlement, appeals, reviews etc

Debt – repayment, negotiating, Debt Relief Orders, Bankruptcy, etc

Housing – Repossessions (rent & mortgage), landlord problems, homeless reviews etc

Employment – redundancy, dismissals, discrimination, etc

Consumer – go to http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

Immigration

Personal Injury - go to http://www.fbcmb.co.uk/

Health Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust has a lot of information on their website to help you and your family live a healthy lifestyle – ww.wolvespct.nhs.uk. On the site you will find:

A Healthy Recipe library which features lots of different types of food for you to cook at home

Information and links to 'Change4Life' - Change4Life aims to help families eat well, move more and live longer and it’s really important for your children's futures

Links to where you can go in the city to keep fit as a family

Information on immunisations

A healthy eating section which includes pages on ‘Packing a Healthy Lunchbox’, ‘Healthy Food’ and the benefits of how you can make small changes to eat more healthily.

A Stop Smoking section

Information on health events in the city for you and your family to get advice and information

Details of Locality Health Panels so that you can have a chance to have your say on the health services being planned for Wolverhampton

Discrimination - Is it happening to you?

What Is Discrimination?

An act or omission that is unfair, and discriminates between groups or individuals - at work, or in other areas of life.

Unfairness is today unlawful and can be challenged.

Discrimination law now covers race, gender, sexuality, disability, age and religion/faith.

This could help you tackle problems about work, with goods & services or in education, housing etc.

How can we help?

By advising you on what to do next.

Assessing the merit and predicting the outcome of your case.

Assisting you in producing a statement or letters.

Helping you complete and send statutory questionnaires.

Supporting you in negotiating a settlement.

Representing you at hearings.

What we will do

Offer an initial interview at our offices.
Provide casework services as agreed.
Explain our advice in writing.
Run your case within the terms of the public funding available.

For more information call us on 01902 572004 or click here to download the Discrimination leaflet.

Advice that makes a difference...
Telephone Advice Line - 01902 572006
Monday – Friday 10am – 2pm (except bank holidays).
Calls cost 4 per minute from landlines, calls from mobiles will vary. If you call outside these hours or lines are busy you will hear the voicemail. Please do not leave a message as they can not be responded to.