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Leicestershire! Part A 7 - 28 General Information about Leicestershire and the UK About Leicestershire 8 - 9 Who lives in Leicestershire 10 The Political System in the UK 11 Local Government in Leicestershire 13 Laws in the UK 14 Money in the UK 17 Customs and Traditions 22 Belief and Religion 26 Part B - Emergency Information 29 - 34 Part C - Work 35 - 46 Part D - Benefits and Legal Advice 47 - 50 Contents Part E - Housing 51 - 56 Part F - Health 57 - 70 Part G - Children and Education 71 - 82 Part H - Older People 83 - 86 Part I - Travel in Leicestershire 87 - 94 Part J - Leisure in Leicestershire 95 - 104 Part K - Asylum Seekers 105 - 107 More Information 108 - 109 Final Comments 110 - 111 WELCOME_PACK_FINAL2.indd 3 10/12/2008 10:06:37 We are delighted that you have chosen to live and/or Parts B to K cover key information that you work in Leicestershire, Leicester City or Rutland. We will need to know including What to do in an have produced this pack of information to help you Emergency, Work, Benefits and Benefits Advice, to settle in as quickly as possible - we hope you find Housing, Health, Children and Education, Older it useful! People, Travel and Leisure. It also includes a section aimed at Asylum Seekers. The Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Citizens’ Jury, organised by Leicestershire Together in You will see that within each B Part 2005, identified information and communication emergency an in do to What - chapter there is a list of Emergency as two key issues of concern to ethnic minority Information organisations and information communities in both the County of Leicestershire with relevant contact details. and the City of Leicester. We know that people Most of these include phone in need of services can struggle to identify who numbers, website and email to talk to and who does what! Nationally, local addresses. We would be authorities and other organisations have produced grateful, again if you could guides and information booklets to their respective let us know of any sources of areas, principally with economic migrant workers help and information that you in mind. One of the best and most informative of have found useful that are Part C these has been produced by the Cornwall Strategic - Work not listed so that we can add Partnership. We were given permission to use a lot them to future editions. of their information in this document and we are tremendously grateful to them for their support and The terms used in the document assistance. may be peculiarly English - Another important source of guidance and things that are often simply information has been the guide for local authorities taken for granted by people entitled ‘Integrating New Migrants: Communicating who were born and raised in Welcome to Leicestershire Welcome Important Information’. This was produced by this country. A good example I&DeA (the Improvement and Development Agency may be use of the terms ‘Great for Local Government) and is intended to help Britain’ and the ‘United Kingdom’ Work anyone wishing to put together their own document. (UK). Not everyone appreciates Though we had already produced our initial drafts that there is a difference. Great Britain refers to we have, nevertheless, checked the document and England, Scotland and Wales and a number of included bits in it that were not originally included small adjacent islands. The United Kingdom on the in our own. other hand also includes Northern Ireland. Neither includes the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, We have tried to produce a document that is though both are dependencies of the British crown! relevant to people living in Leicester, Leicestershire Confused? Hopefully, this document will help you to and Rutland, with sources of local and national help understand more about this country – its systems, and information. We have tried to ensure that the procedures, organisations, laws, services, culture information is correct and up-to-date, but things can and mannerisms. change quite rapidly. Please point out our mistakes so that they can be rectified. Please also let us know In doing this, we hope that you will become familiar if you would like to see other subjects included with your new surroundings very quickly, feel at in future editions. Contact Part A - General Information about Leicesterhire and the UK home and comfortable and contribute to making [email protected] with both your own lives and those of your neighbours comments/ammendments. and local communities more enriching and fulfilling. If we can help in any way, please don’t hesitate to The document is in different get in touch. sections. Part A covers general information about Leicestershire, including the strucure of local government, Welcome to Laws, Money, Customs and Traditions and Belief and GeneralInformation Religion. Leicestershire! WELCOME_PACK_FINAL2.indd 4 26/11/2008 09:08:39 WELCOME_PACK_FINAL2.indd 5 NOTTINGHAM BOTTESFORD M1 boundaries, majorroadsandlargertowns. A mapofLeicestershire,showingtheCityandDistrict A46 A52 GRANTHAM DERBY A453 A1 A60 A606 Nottingham A607 East Midlands Airport BURTON UPON TRENT MELTON BOROUGH A42 A6006 SHEPSHED LOUGHBOROUGH A46 ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH MELTON A512 MOWBRAY NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE CHARNWOOD A607 A1 DISTRICT M1 BOROUGH A511 A606 COALVILLE A6 A50 SYSTON A606 OAKHAM A16 STAMFORD Rutland Water A6121 LEICESTER A1 A47 HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH A6003 BOROUGH A47 A447 A47 OADBY A47 UPPINGHAM A444 M69 OADBY & WIGSTON BOROUGH A5 EARL WIGSTON SHILTON BLABY BLABY DISTRICT A6 HINCKLEY HARBOROUGH DISTRICT M1 NUNEATON CORBY A5199 MARKET A5 A426 HARBOROUGH M6 M69 LUTTERWORTH A4304 M6 KETTERING COVENTRY A14 26/11/2008 09:08:42 RUGBY Map of Leicestershire If you need an interpreter to do offi cial if you need one. They may need a few business, e.g. talking to the police or days to fi nd someone who speaks your someone at a local council, or asking language. about jobs at Jobcentre Plus, then the organisation to whom you are talking As there are over 85 languages will fi nd an interpreter. It is their spoken in Leicester and more than responsibility to fi nd some way they can 50 in Leicestershire, organisations help you, in your own language. are increasingly looking to provide translated written information in a Some organisations, like Leicestershire variety of languages. However, the County Council, Leicestershire costs of translation are high and Constabulary and Jobcentre Plus (as with the vast number of languages well as many others) also subscribe to to cater for, it may not always be the interpreting and translation service, possible to immediately get access to Language Line. This links them to a information in your particular language. qualifi ed and validated interpreter. However, organisations can arrange for You can then have a 3-way phone translations to be done, though this may conversation with the offi cial person and take a little while to happen. an interpreter. Other organisations can arrange for an interpreter to be present Interpreters MELTON BOROUGH NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE CHARNWOOD DISTRICT BOROUGH Rutland Water HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH BOROUGH OADBY & WIGSTON BOROUGH BLABY DISTRICT HARBOROUGH DISTRICT WELCOME_PACK_FINAL2.indd 6 26/11/2008 09:08:46 - General Information about Leicestershire and the UK Part A Part GeneralInformation WELCOME_PACK_FINAL2.indd 7 26/11/2008 09:08:47 About Leicestershire The County of Leicestershire is in the heart of England, in a region called the East Midlands. The County surrounds the City of Leicester and Rutland lies to the east of Leicestershire. Large towns in Leicestershire include Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Lutterworth, Oadby, Wigston, Hinckley and Coalville. There are many villages as well. The East Midlands region is part of England. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland make up the United Kingdom. Leicester was an important early Roman settlement (called Ratae Corieltauvorum). The fi rst great Roman road in this country (Fosse Way) ran through The Battle of Bosworth, in which - General Information about Leicestershire and the UK Leicester. Fosse is still a name that King Richard III was killed and has Leicester links. Fosse Road is a overthrown by Henry Tudor to end major thoroughfare in the City, and the Wars of the Roses, took place in 1485. The battlefi eld lies just South Part A Part Leicester City Football Club were originally called Leicester Fosse. of the town of Market Bosworth. 8 Simon de Montfort (after whom Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England one of Leicester’s Universities is for just nine days in 1553) lived at named) was Earl of Leicester in the Bradgate Park, six miles North West Thirteenth Century. He led a revolt of of the City of Leicester. barons against the reigning monarch, Henry III. Almost certainly the largest character in Leicester’s history was Daniel Lambert (born in Leicester in 1770). He has achieved national fame as at one stage he weighed nearly 53 stone and had a waist measurement of 9 feet! WELCOME_PACK_FINAL2.indd 8 26/11/2008 09:08:50 The first public trip by train Leicestershire is famous for the now was organised by Thomas illegal country pastime of fox hunting Cook (founder of the with dogs. The hunt at Quorn in modern travel industry Charnwood is particularly famous. and whose name The emblem of Leicestershire County features in many a Council contains a fox and the town and city centre nickname of both the City’s football in the UK), and took team and the County’s cricket team place between is ‘the foxes’. Leicester and Loughborough in Diwali celebrations in Leicester are 1841. Cook lived said to be the largest outside of in Leicester for 50 India. The City’s Caribbean Carnival years. is also the biggest after Notting Hill in London.
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