Advice for Professionals

As a community law centre, we are reaching out to serve the communities we work with during the pandemic and to share our legal expertise with frontline staff and volunteers supporting them.

COVID-19 Legal Info Pack (PDF) - the very latest updates on changes to people's rights and sources of extra support in Coventry.

We are also producing information, leaflets, free webinars and training materials on changes to people's rights and the law as a result of COVID. Resources can be found below, but do contact us if there are specific topics you’d like us to produce information on.

COVID-19 - A statement of solidarity

A statement of solidarity regarding COVID-19, from Sue Bent (CEO) Read more

COVID-19 Info Pack

Current and archived versions of the CELC COVID-19 Info Pack providing changes to people's rights and sources of extra support. Read more

Leaflets to use with your clients

Useful leaflets to use with your clients during COVID-19. Read more

Latest

Rights in Practice Advisor - Welfare Benefits

We are looking to appoint an Advisor (Welfare Benefits) for our Rights in Practice Team based at our Coventry Office. This is a fixed term role initially for 12 months.

Council Tax Support - Birmingham

COVID-19 Council Tax Hardship Payments

New Toolkit launched to help students with humanitarian protection access home fees and student finance

A practical guide for students in England who have been granted humanitarian protection [HP] and who want to go to university.

Black Lives Matter

We stand in solidarity with Black communities at home and around the world. Black Lives Matter at Central England Law Centre and they always will.

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Who we help

All of our services are free. We prioritise people who would not otherwise be able to access legal advice and representation.

Work for us

Join our team and be part of a cutting edge team using the law to fight social exclusion in society.

Volunteer

The Law Centre is a resource for the whole community and we rely on our amazing team of volunteers help us reach more people with our services.

Our Vision

We want to live in a society where people’s rights are upheld, their needs met and they are enabled to thrive. We are the largest Law Centre in the UK. We provide free specialist legal advice to people across central England.

Child and Family Law

Following the breakdown of a relationship, we provide advice and representation on all aspects of family and childcare law.

Asylum and Immigration Law

Legal advice and representation to people seeking to regularise their immigration status.

Our history

The national Law Centre movement was started in the 1970s by radical lawyers who were disappointed in the failure of the welfare state to eradicate poverty and deliver a more equal society. Coventry Law Centre was founded in 1976 by four Councillors: Tom McLatchie, Gilbert Richards, Arthur Waugh Senior and Charles Ward. Coventry City Council has been a key supporter of our work ever since.

Funding

All our services are free funded by a wide range of partners and supporters.

Our impact

Every day we help people to know their legal rights and have them upheld. We change the lives of the people we help, and change society to make it fairer for all and more equal.