Wakefield's new Community Legal Advice Service opens today, bringing together a wide range of advice services under one roof. The new service will provide a full range of general advice and information, plus specialist advice in debt, welfare benefits, housing, employment, community care and family law.
Switalskis will be working in partnership with Wakefield District CAB to deliver the new service from the CAB's offices in King Street, Wakefield (shown in the map below), and from advice clinics at locations in Pontefract, Hemsworth and Castleford.
Wakefield District residents will be able to access the service at King Street Monday-Friday from 9am - 5pm, and until 8pm on Tuesday evenings.
The King Street office will also open between 9am and 12 noon on the first Saturday of each month.
The Service also has a telephone help line: 0844 499 4138
Clinics will be open as follows:
1st Floor
Horsefair House
Horsefair
Pontefract
WF8 1NX
(Open Wednesdays and Fridays)
Five Towns Resource & Technology Centre
Welbeck Street
Castleford WF10 1DP
(Open Thursdays)
Hemsworth Town Hall
1 Bank Street
Hemsworth
WF9 4JX
(Open Wednesdays)
More information about Community Legal Advice is available at www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
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