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  • Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Head Office, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3JJ (tel 08457 474747).

  • Age Concern, Astral House, 1268, London Road, London SW16 4ER (tel 020 8765 7200)

  • BERR - see below under "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"

  • Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), CIPD House, Camp Road, London SW19 4UX (tel 0208 971 9000).

  • Citizens Advice Bureaux - CAB advice offices are in towns all over England and Wales - The CABx Admin centre is as Myddelton House,, 115-123 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9LZ (tel 020 7833 2181).

  • Dep't for Work and Pensions, Room 540, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6HT. Phone 020 7712 2171.

  • Dep't of Health Phone 020 7210 5983

  • Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (until 2009, BERR and before that the DTI), 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET, tel 020 7215 5000.

  • Disability Alliance, Universal House 88-94 Wentworth Street London E1 7SA, tel 020 7247 8763

  • Discrimination Law Association, PO Box 7722, Newbury, RG20 5WD (tel 0845 478 6375 (e-mail info@discriminationlaw.org.uk).

  • Disability - see Disability Discrimination/addresses & tel nos .

  • Employment Agency Standards Offices (DTI), National: 0845 955 5105

  • Employment Appeal Tribunal see EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL/addresses, tel and fax nos .

  • Employers Forum on Age 2nd Floor, The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 020 7981 0341

  • Employment Lawyers Association, P.O. Box 353, Uxbridge, Middx UB10 7EQ 01895-256972

  • Employment Tribunals - see Employment tribunals/addresses, tel & fax nos

  • Equality and Human Rights Commission London Office is at 3 More London, Riverside Tooley Street, London, SE1 2RG (tel: 020 3117 0235 - helpline 0845 604 6610). Offices also in Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow.

  • European Commission, European Court of Justice, UK Information offices and Law Societies' Joint Brussels Office see EUROPEAN LAW/addresses and tel nos .

  • Fawcett Society ("Fair deal for women), 1-3 Berry Street, London EC1V 0AA, tel 0207 253 2598.

  • Federation of Small Businesses - see SMALL EMPLOYERS

  • Forum of Private Buisiness is at Ruskin Chambers, Drury Lane, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 6HA. (tel: 01565 634467)

  • Free Representation Unit - see LEGAL AID

  • Health & Safety Executive (HSE) - see Health and Safety at work/addresses & tel nos

  • HMSO - see the Stationery Office below.

  • UK Border Agency (formerly Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate) 36 Wellesley Road, CROYDON, Surrey CR9 3RR

  • House of Commons Public Information Office 020 7219 4272.

  • House of Lords Public Information Office 020 7219 3107.

  • Immigration Service Commissioner (for regulation of immigration advisers) Fleetbank House, 2-6 Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8JX.

  • Information Commissioner Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (01625-545745) (and see Scottish Information Commisioner)

  • Institute of Directors (IoD) - 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED 020 7839 1233 (IOD library 020 7451 3100)

  • International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH (tel +44/020 7278 3230, fax: +44/020 7278 4334 )

  • International Labour Organisation (ILO) 2nd Floor Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP (tel 020 7828 6401) or ILO Head Office, 4, route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland (tel +41.22.799.6111) - see notes at Institutions of employment law/International Labour Organization .

  • Investors in People UK, 7-10 Chandos Street, London W1G 9DQ (tel 020 7467 1900).

  • Labour Research Dep't, 78 Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8HF (020 7928 3649)

  • Law Centres Federation, Duchess House, 18-19 Warren St, London W1P 5DB (020 7387 8570)

  • Law Society, The Law Society's Hall, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL (tel 020 7242 1222; Library - 020 7320 5946).

  • Law Society of Scotland, The Law Society's Hall, 26 Brumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 7YR (tel 0131-226 7411; fax 0131-225 2934)

  • Legal Action Group (LAG), 242 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9UN (020 7833 2931)

  • Legal Services Commission - see Legal Services Commission

  • Lord Chancellor's Department, (aka The Department for Constitutional Affairs), 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT (020 7210 8512)

  • Maternity Alliance (this organisation closed at end 2006. Their employment related advice work has been taken over by Working Families.org.uk)

  • National Council for One Parent Families, 255 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2LX (Tel: 020 7428 5400; Fax: 020 7482 4851 ) - and One Parent Families Scotland, 13 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh EH1 3NX (0131-556 3899).

  • New Ways to Work, 309 Upper Street, London N1 2TY (020 7 354 2978)

  • Northern Ireland - The Office of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal, Long Bridge House, 20-24 Waring Street, Belfast BT1 2EB tel (028) 9032 7666

  • Occupational Pensions Advisory Service, 11 Belgrave Road, London SW1V 1RB (020 7233 8080).

  • Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority ("OPRA"), Invicta House, Trafalgar Place, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4DW (tel 01273 627600; fax 01273-627630).

  • Ombudsman (Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration), Millbank Tower, Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP (tel 020 7217 4163)

  • Patent Office, Cardiff Road, Newport, Gwent NP9 1RH (01633-814000)

  • Pensions Ombudsman, 6th Floor, 11 Belgrave Road, London SW1V 1RB (020 7834 9144).

  • Professional Contractors Group Ltd ("PCG"), Sovereign Court, 635 Sipson Road West, Drayton UB7 0JE (0845 125 9899 Fax: 0845 644 4105)

  • Public Concern at Work ("the whistle blower's charity"), Suite 306, 16 Baldwins Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ (tel 020 7404 6609; fax 020 7404 6576)

  • Redundancy Payments Offices:
  • PO Box 15, Exchange House, 60 Exchange Road, Watford, WD1 7SP (main helpline is 0845 145 0004)
    (for Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, London, Suffolk, Sussex and Surrey);
  • 7th Floor Hagley House, 83-85 Hagley Road, Birmingham, B16 8QG.(tel 0121-456 4411)
    (for Birmingham, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Isle of Wight, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Manchester, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wales, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire and Worcester);
  • Ladywell House, Ladywell Road, Edinburgh, EH12 7UR (tel 0131-316 5600)
    (for Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Merseyside, Northumberland, Scotland, Teesside, Tyne and Wear and Yorkshire).

  • Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London tel 0207 947 6000

  • Runnymede Trust (Race Relations) 133 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4JA (020 7600 9666)

  • Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS (01334 464610)

  • The Stationery Office:
  • 123 Kingsway, LONDON WC2B 6PQ (020 7242 6393).
  • 16 Arthur St, BELFAST BT1 4GD (028 90-238451).
  • 68/69 Bull St, BIRMINGHAM B4 6AD (0121-236 9696).
  • 33 Wine St, BRISTOL BS1 2BQ (0117-926 4306).
  • The Friary, CARDIFF CF1 4AA (029-20-395548).
  • 71 Lothian Rd, EDINBURGH EH3 9AZ (0131-228 4181).
  • 9-21 Princess St, Albert Square, MANCHESTER M60 8AS (0161-834 7201).
  • 24 hour orders: Stationery Office Publications, PO Box 276, London SW8 5DT (020 7873 9090)

  • Trade Union Congress (TUC), 23/28 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3LS (020 7636 4030)

  • Some trade unions:-

  • UK Council for Access and Equality (UKCAE), Garden Floor, 2 Kensington Square, London W8 5EP (tel: 020 7368 6868)

  • Women Against Sexual Harassment, 312 The Chandlery, 50 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7QY and Rights of Women, 52 Featherstone St, London EC1Y 8RT (020 7251 6577).

  • Working Families, 1-3 Berry Street, London EC1V 0AA (Tel: 020 7253 7243; Fax: 020 7253 6253)

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