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To Leicestershire! Welcometo Leicestershire! Loughborough M e l t o n K i r b y A sh b y information Part A 7 - 28 General Information about Leicesterhire 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 The Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Citizens’ Parts B to K cover key information that you Jury, organised by Leicestershire Together in 2005, will need to know including What to do in an identified issues of concern to ethnic minority Emergency, Work, Benefits and Benefits Advice, communities in both the County of Leicestershire Housing, Health, Children and Education, Older and the City of Leicester. Prominent amongst these People, Travel and Leisure. It also includes a section were issues around information and communication. aimed at Asylum Seekers. Clearly, there are still significant obstacles to people in need of services who struggle to identify You will see that within each B Part who to talk to and who does what! Nowhere is chapter there is a list of Emergency emergency an in do to What - Information this more crucial than for people new to the area. organisations and information Nationally, local authorities and other organisations with relevant contact details. have produced guides and information booklets to Most of these include phone their respective areas, principally with economic numbers, website and email migrant workers in mind. One of the best and addresses. We would be most informative of these has been produced by grateful, again if you could the Cornwall Strategic Partnership. We were given let us know of any sources of permission to use a lot of their information in this help and information that you document and we are tremendously grateful to them have found useful that aren’t Part C for their support and assistance. listed so that we can add them - Work to future editions. Another important source of guidance and information has been the guide for local authorities The terms used in the document entitled ‘Integrating New Migrants: Communicating may also be peculiarly English Important Information’. This was produced by in many ways, such is the I&DeA (the Improvement and Development Agency difficulties in trying to explain for Local Government) and includes a generic things that are often simply taken Welcome to Leicestershire Welcome information resource intended to help anyone for granted by people who were wishing to put together their own document. Though born and raised in this country. we had already produced our initial drafts by the A good example may be use of Work time this generic work was circulated, we have, the terms ‘Great Britain’ and the nevertheless, checked the document and included ‘United Kingdom’ (UK). Not everyone appreciates bits in it that were not originally included in our that there is a difference. Great Britain refers to own. England, Scotland and Wales and a number of small adjacent islands. The United Kingdom on the We have tried to produce a document that is other hand also includes Northern Ireland. Neither relevant to people living in Leicester, Leicestershire includes the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, and Rutland, with sources of local help and though both are dependencies of the British crown! information hopefully as useful as more national Confused? Hopefully, this document will help you to orientated detail. We have tried to ensure that the understand more about this country – its systems, information is correct and up-to-date, but things can procedures, organisations, laws, services, culture change quite rapidly. Please point out our mistakes and mannerisms. so that they can be rectified. Please also let us know if you would like to see other subjects included in In doing this, we hope that you will become familiar future editions. Part A - General Information about Leicesterhire and the UK with your new surroundings very quickly, feel at home and comfortable and contribute to making both your own lives and those of your neighbours The document is in different and local communities more enriching and fulfilling. sections. Part A covers If we can help in any way, please don’t hesitate to general information about get in touch. Leicestershire, including the strucure of local government, Laws, Money, Customs and Welcome to Traditions and Belief and Religion. GeneralInformation Leicestershire! 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 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 HARBOROUGH DISTRICT General Information Part A - General Information about Leicesterhire and the UK About Leicestershire The County of Leicestershire is in the heart of England, in a region called the East Midlands. You can see on the map that the County surrounds the City of Leicester. 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 Leicesterhire 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! The first public trip by train was organised by Thomas Leicestershire is famous for the now Cook (founder of the illegal country pastime of fox hunting modern travel industry with dogs. The hunt at Quorn in and whose name Charnwood is particularly famous. features in many a The emblem of Leicestershire County town and city centre Council contains a fox and the in the UK), and took nickname of both the City’s football place between team and the County’s cricket team Leicester and is ‘the foxes’. Loughborough in 1841. Cook lived Diwali celebrations in Leicester are in Leicester for 50 said to be the largest outside of years. India. The City’s Caribbean Carnival is also the biggest after Notting Hill in London. Other famous Leicestershire The National Space Centre is - General Information about Leicesterhire and the UK people include the footballers Peter situated in Leicester. It is the UK’s Shilton and Gary Lineker, Joseph biggest attraction devoted to space.
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