Online support
Used daily by tens of thousands of advisers across the UK, rightsnet, our Nominet award winning website is the No1 source of high quality information about welfare benefits and tax credits; breaking news about debt, employment, housing and community care; and peer-to-peer support with client cases through our dedicated adviser discussion forums. We also advertise the latest advice worker vacancies and volunteer opportunities across the UK.
Who uses rightsnet?
Rightsnet has tens of thousands of visitors every month.
Users of rightsnet - the only second-tier website to be awarded the Legal Services Commission Quality Mark for websites - include:
Citizens Advice Bureaux; adviceUK and adviceNI agencies;local authority welfare rights units,social services and housing departments; the Child Poverty Action Group; Disability Alliance; RNID; RNIB; and Age UK; law centres and private practice law firms; asylum and refugee agencies; the Local Government Association; the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers;Rights Advice Scotland; the Social Security Law Practitioners Association; the DWP and Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland; the Social Security Advisory Committee; the Work and Pensions Select Committee; the Tribunals Service;the Social Security Chamber of the Upper Tribunal; the BBC; parliamentary researchers; freelance consultants and trainers .... and more!
Why should I use rightsnet?
Access to rightsnet provides advisers with:
- News on the latest statutory instruments, DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) and Revenue guidance ... brought together and summarised within 24 hours of their issue
- User-friendly summaries of significant benefit and tax credit related caselaw - including fully searchable and cross referenced summaries of the latest Tribunal decisions and Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judgments
- Ten fully moderated adviser discussion forums, that attract more than 1/2 million contributions every year and
- Benefit rates information, factsheets and leaflets, benefit rate calculators, and the latest advice sector job vacancies
What people say about rightsnet
"People receive better benefits advice through services such as www.rightsnet.org.uk ..." - The Cabinet Office (July 2008)
"Essential to the job, I can't imagine being without it" - Rightsnet user
"As far as online services are concerned, there is little to beat rightsnet. This site contains a wealth of resources for people working in the welfare benefits field ..." - Sweet & Maxwell, publishers of the Social Security Law Volumes.
Read more user feedback on the rightsnet site.
Find out more
The rightsnet site is available @ www.rightsnet.org.uk