Housing, Communities and Social Justice

Quick Guides

Quick guides look at complex or technical topics, and provide easily understood guides to these topics.

• Fuel Poverty
  
  February 2011
  This quick guide provides a brief overview of Fuel Poverty in Wales including information on Welsh Government schemes and strategies.

• Housing for Disabled Children and Families
  
  May 2012
  This Quick Guide looks at the issues that disabled children and their families may experience with housing and gives information about grants available for housing adaptations and relevant policy initiatives introduced by the Welsh Government.

• Legal Aid Reforms
  
  August 2011
  This quick guide outlines proposals for the reform of civil and family legal aid in England and Wales.

• Public Law Cases and the Family Justice Review
  
  March 2012
  The final report of the Family Justice Review was published in November 2011 and recommends reform of the family justice system in England and Wales in both devolved and non-devolved areas.  This Quick Guide summarises what the Family Justice Review has to say about public law proceedings involving the protection of children in Wales and reaction to the recommendations.

• Private Law Cases and the Family Justice Review
  
  March 2012
  The final report of the Family Justice Review was published in November 2011 and recommends reform of the family justice system in England and Wales in both devolved and non-devolved areas.  This Quick Guide summarises what the Family Justice Review has to say about private law proceedings involving the protection of children in Wales and reaction to the recommendations.

• Welfare in Wales series: 1 - Welfare Statistics
  
  September 2011
  This quick guide looks at the main welfare statistics.

• Welfare in Wales series: 2 - Welfare Reforms
  
  September 2011
  This quick guide looks at the main changes proposed to the welfare system.

• Welfare in Wales series: 3 - Housing Benefit Reforms
  
  September 2011
  This quick guide looks at the main changes to the housing benefit system, and when they will come into force.

• Welfare in Wales series: 4 - Universal Credit
  
  September 2011
  This quick guide looks at the ‘Universal Credit’, what it is, and how it will operate.

• Welfare in Wales series: 5 - Impact of Reforms
  
  September 2011
  This quick guide looks at how the changes to the welfare system will impact on Wales.