The Chinese Information and Advice Centre (CIAC) provides free information, advice and support to disadvantaged Chinese people in their community living in the UK. Their services include:
- Women & children support
- Benefits advice & advocacy
- Homeless housing & support
- Immigration support
- Legal advice
- Home Office surgery
- Voluntary Return workshop
- Healthcare
- Asylum seeker & refugee support
- Third party reporting centre
- Prison & probation support
Chinese people are often disadvantaged by not being able to access services or justice because of language and cultural barriers.
To help people overcome these barriers, CIAC staff can work with service users in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghainese, Fujian, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian.
Our centre has been supporting people across the United Kingdom since 1982 and is based in London Chinatown.
CIAC are a registered charity and a social enterprise.
The centre also organises a range of cultural and social activities and partnership work for the benefit of the community.