Advance High Quality Thinking

Law for Dementia Carers

Grant: £100,000
March 26, 2019

The Law for Dementia Carers (L4DC) project aims to work with Dementia United (DU) with the aim "to make Greater Manchester the best place in the world for dementia care" - to embed access to legal support for carers of people with dementia and recognise its contribution to improving both individual and system-wide health outcomes. Aligning and embedding the outcomes of this project within the DU programme as well as the GM wide Commitment to Carers (Right help and support at the right time) will enable us to embed and sustain this approach after the pilot project. The project will embed human rights education and legal support by means of a three tiered approach:

• to co –develop a blended modular legal support training programme for carers, using their lived experience.
• Co-develop and co-deliver a blended training programme for staff utilising expert carers;
• Co-produce guidance for policy developers, educators and commissioning bodies to influence and embed the learning and outcomes.

Advancing the rule of law on equality and human rights

Grant: £68,755
November 14, 2018

The loss of this underpinning due to Brexit puts equality and human rights at risk – in law and in practice. This project will address this by advancing the rule of law on equality and human rights in the two key areas of replacing EU funding and legislative change

Strategic Review of LCN

Grant: £54,890
August 28, 2018

LCN will partner with Social Finance to undertake a full strategic review of LCN and its operations. This will focus on improving the sustainability of LCN, through identification and strategic analysis of products and services LCN offers and could offer in the future. This will include analysing sources of income, potential size of and routes to access income, as well as sources of costs and potential ways to improve efficiencies. The review will include assessing the skills and organisational structure of LCN necessary to implement its recommendations.

This work will feed into a three year strategic plan and a high-level 10 year strategic vision for LCN. We will also provide a network pricing tool for member law centres, to allow them to improve their charging structures for fee-earning work.

Technology enabled access to justice and lean legal services – a vision for Scotland

Grant: £8,000
August 16, 2018

This project is a scoping exercise to identify the Information, Communication and Technology developments needed to:

• Become a fully digital organisation
• Optimise limited resources through clever use of ICT
• Extend the organisations reach through the application of technology to enable legal assistance, advice and representation to be supported in the smaller towns and “Legal Deserts” found in the rural and remote areas of Scotland.
• Provide a platform to enable the delivery of a wider range of legal services

Understanding the role of technology in achieving IPSEA’s strategic objectives

Grant: £14,600
June 20, 2018

Updating case management and client relationship management systems to ensure the organisation is better placed to advise and support families to understand and use SEND law to help their children, and to ensure the organisation meets GDPR requirements.

Scoping and design of a pilot to meet legal need within Social Finance Health and Social Care platforms

Grant: £38,250
June 20, 2018

Supporting a collaboration with Social Finance to develop a sustainable model for integrating work that identifies and resolves unmet legal needs into two of Social Finance service platforms that address health and social care needs.

LAG Digital expansion project

Grant: £16,340
June 20, 2018

Supporting the implementation of LAG's "digital first" publishing strategy.

Legal Solutions to Tackling Homelessness and Destitution in Greater Manchester

Grant: £80,000
June 20, 2018

Supporting a partnership between Greater Manchester Law Centre, Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit and Cornerstones (a project of Caritas Salford) to identify and address the legal needs of people that are homeless, and to work with Greater Manchester Council to establish the role of specialist legal advice in its strategy to tackle homelessness and destitution across Greater Manchester.

Financial Information and systems audit work by FW Beringer

Grant: £10,000
May 11, 2018

Funding consultants to undertake a financial information and systems audit.

To increase the efficiency, effectiveness, stability & income generation of Merseyside Law Centre

Grant: £72,000
May 8, 2018

Supporting the development and growth of Merseyside Law Centre so as to ensure greater capacity to meet local legal needs, funded in partnership with AB Charitable Trust.