The legal rights manual: A guide for social workers and advice centres

This book is a practical manual dealing with a wide range of typical legal problems facing clients of those engaged in social work. It will be a source of reference to social workers and assistants, to those working in the medical and paramedical professions, and to those involved in training in these areas, whether as students or as teachers. Written by a lawyer with considerable practical and teaching experience in this field, the book adopts a straightforward, non-technical style to explain the legal rights of the public in many important areas of daily concern: bad or insecure housing; in the workplace; on the street; welfare benefits; general consumer problems and how to complain about them; the rights of consumers of council services; and the special rights of elderly people, and of physically or mentally disabled people both at home and in an institution. The book also provides details of hundreds of useful sources of further advice and assistance in all these topics.