The importance of treating housing costs as priority debts. Effective debt advice prevents homelessness.

By Alan Murdie It is over 10 years since Nucleus took the decision to specialise in debt advice, ahead of financial crisis of 2008 (then known as the ‘credit crunch’). Traditionally, housing was one of the key areas of the work for Nucleus, and over this last decade we have seen it evolve into an […]

I’m pregnant and my employer has dismissed me for misconduct. What can I do?

An employer can fairly dismiss a pregnant employee for gross misconduct, e.g. theft or violence, but they must show there is reasonable evidence of guilt, dismissal is a reasonable sanction for the misconduct in question and the procedure is fair. However, if you can show that the decision to dismiss you was significantly influenced by […]

New Regulations To Help Tackling Overcrowding (…but for HMOs only!)

vercrowding  in England Levels of overcrowding in London are more than twice as high as the rest of England for every tenure ( but it’s worst for tenants). In England:  1% of owner occupier households are over crowded, 3 % of private tenants are living in overcrowded  housing and in Social housing 4% are living […]