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Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and here’s hoping for a brilliant 2026. Thanks so much from everyone here at rightsnet for your continued support through the year .. we hope we’ve been helpful to you in all the unbelievable work you do out there. Have a fantastic break whatever you’re doing
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Deep down I feared ... who will listen to any of us, and especially to me?

@changingrealities.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69425
December 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We added a new vacancy listing from @londonlegal.bsky.social:

Senior Programme Manager
Full-time
£42,000 - £45,000
Location: London / Hybrid
Deadline: 14 January, 2026

More: rightsnet.org.uk/jobs
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Justice Minister outlines disaster recovery work carried out in response to LAA cyber attack

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69433
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Extension of 56-day refugee ‘move-on’ period until 16 January 2026 following High Court challenge

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69431
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
People with MND are dying waiting for applications for disabled facilities grants to be processed

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69432
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We just added a new vacancy listing from Citizens Advice Richmond:

Financial Resilience Navigator
35 hours per week
£32,682 – £33,662.46
Location: Richmond
Deadline: Rolling

More: rightsnet.org.uk/jobs
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
MoJ announces new £20m, three-year funding for the access to justice sector

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69422
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Future of the youth minimum wage and issues around young people’s mental health to be considered as part of Milburn review

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69405
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Senior DWP officials under mounting pressure over their ‘misleading’ response to carer’s allowance overpayment scandal

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69404
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Information Commissioner dismisses DWP’s description of investigative journalist as ‘vengeful’ and ‘vexatious’

@johnpring.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69399
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We just added lots of new training dates from the Benefits Training Company ...

... booking now through to December 2026

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69398
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
High Court orders Home Office to delay refugee evictions

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69351
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We just added a new vacancy listing from Citizens Advice Camden:

Adviser
28 hours per week
£27,203.90 - £28,324.94
Location: Royal Free Hospital, London NW3
Deadline: 19 January, 2026

More: rightsnet.org.uk/jobs
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We just added some new training dates from Independent Age

@independentage.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69343
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Advice sector urges Prime Minister to commit to the introduction of a statutory bailiff regulator

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69348
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New contingency arrangements for civil legal aid applications have come into effect

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69345
December 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Local welfare assistance schemes can be hard to find, hard to navigate, and exhausting to deal with when you are already in crisis

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69338
December 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Acute hardship being faced by low-income families is seeing little improvement, and promises to get worse

@jrf-uk.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69337
December 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Nuffield invites proposals for research projects that confront the scale and urgency of the UK’s biggest social and economic challenges

@nuffieldfoundation.org

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69326
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
More than half of teachers in England work with children who are homeless

@sheltercharity.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69319
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
More than half of teachers in England work with children who are homeless

@sheltercharity.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69319
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
No one in government appears to be curious about how much better people’s lives would be with a relatively modest investment in advice

@wearelapg.bsky.social @legalactiongroup.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69302
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Employment Rights Bill completes its passage through the Commons and the Lords

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69304
December 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Blog: Tenant redress for abuse of possession grounds under the Renters’ Rights Act

@nearlylegal.co.uk

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69289
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM