Law Centres Training Programme - Year 3
Grant: £26,385
June 21, 2017
The project will provide high quality tailored training to enhance the skills and practice of Law Centre staff to ensure an expert free legal service is available to vulnerable people in areas of social welfare law that affect their daily lives. To achieve this, the project will continue to upgrade and further the knowledge and skills of Law Centres solicitors and legal caseworkers especially in new and emerging areas of law, but will also seek, by training managers and trustees to advance good practice models, new ways of working and alternative income streams for Law Centres so that they can improve their sustainability and so continue to ensure that legal needs are met.
The implications of leaving the European Union will have a significant impact on the vulnerable clients of Law Centres. Clients and voluntary sector colleagues are looking to Law Centres to provide leadership on this issue in their local communities.
To meet this demand this project will equip them with knowledge and skills by working with Law Centre specialists in considering the effects of the Great Repeal Bill and the transposing of European law into domestic law and engaging with the Government and parliamentary law makers.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Viability of a Guided Pathway for law relating to Reasonable Adjustments
Grant: £20,000
June 21, 2017
The project is to assist in developing an online guided pathway covering the law in relation to reasonable adjustments in the workplace for disabled people. The pathway will explain relevant laws and lead to the production of initial advice and signposting, and will in addition function as an efficient triage system for those cases that merit further advice from one of the lawyers working for DLS. The aim is to assess the feasibility of a system covering a limited area of law to ensure deliverability, but which will lend itself to further development such that other areas of disability discrimination and employment law can be added.
The aim is for the pathway to be developed such that it will be fully accessible in line with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The scoping study will assess the following areas:
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
General Public | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Safer Renting
Grant: £21,978
June 21, 2017
An innovative project to tackle homelessness and support vulnerable private renters by:
Funding will cover development and initial delivery costs of a specialist training programme in landlord/tenant and housing law and housing enforcement.
Outcomes for tenants:
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Law Students | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Support for bereaved families and witnesses attending a Coroners Court Inquest
Grant: £15,400
June 21, 2017
This project is intended to deliver an up-to-date, comprehensive website which will provide the information and support often lacking for bereaved families and witnesses attending a Coroners Court inquest. It will provide information on the inquest process – and the families and/or witnesses role in that process – identify the support available through CCSS in a particular court, refer users to the Helpline and signpost to other organisations for longer-term support.
It will be a key awareness raising tool, enabling the charity to increase public understanding of the process and procedures of an inquest as well as highlighting the help available to those attending an inquest, as a bereaved family member, a lay or professional witness (including the emergency services and health care workers).
The website will also provide an interactive secure space for CCSS volunteers to share experiences, offer advice and support one-another through difficult cases. It will be an accessible space for the charity to communicate with its geographically diverse team of volunteers.
Finally, the website will be a key resource in generating interest and financial support for CCSS, enabling it to achieve its long-term plan of providing a national service, offering a presence in all 92 Coroners’ Courts.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
General Public | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Development of Collaborative Social Justice Model
Grant: £85,000
June 21, 2017
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Developing Income Streams | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
c-App Promotion and Uptake
Grant: £22,000
June 21, 2017
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
User of Advice Organisations | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Best Practice Guide on Asylum and Human Rights Appeals
Grant: £8,500
June 21, 2017
This project will comprehensively update the electronic Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals which is published on the EIN website at www.ein.org.uk/bpg/contents. The current version of the Guide was published in early 2015 and states the law as at 30 November 2014.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
The Value of Health-Justice Partnerships
Grant: £65,000
June 21, 2017
There are three elements to this project:
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Developing Income Streams | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Building Livelihoods
Grant: £38,000
June 21, 2017
This three-year pilot will employ an Advisor to provide legal support and coaching to targeted clients and peers - referring specialist cases to project partners when necessary. Building Groundswell's beneficiaries’ legal capability, and supporting them to overcome complex legal issues, will positively impact other areas of their lives including health and independence.
This project includes an independent evaluation to measure the impact of supporting homeless people with legal needs; developing a case for support for sustaining the work and including legal outcomes in Groundswell's contracts.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Developing Income Streams | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Replacement IT Equipment for North Kensington Law Centre
Grant: £1,500
June 16, 2017
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
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