Who else can help you?
Advice on employment rights, self employment and starting your own business
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) offers free, confidential and impartial advice on all employment rights issues. You can call the ACAS helpline on 08457 47 47 47 from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm Monday to Friday.
Your local Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) can provide free and impartial advice. You can find your local CAB office in the phone book or online.
If you have doubts about the way your employer may have calculated your statutory redundancy pay you can call the Redundancy Payments Helpline on 0845 1450 004.
More useful links
- Insolvency - find out more
- Business Gateway - information on starting up your own business and advice for businesses on redundancy issues.
- Self Employment - information from Business Gateway on self-employment.
- Interesting articles from the BBC - How to cope during the recession and How to cope with unemployment.
- Citizens Advice Bureau Redundancy Pay
- Directgov - Redundancy and leaving your job


