Delivering maternity rights information through apps and email-based notification
Grant: £8,000
October 11, 2017
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Addressing the IT needs of Fair Trials
Grant: £7,850
August 4, 2017
Fair Trials’ IT system is currently not fit for purpose. As an increasingly international organisation, with offices based in London, Brussels and Washington DC, the reliance of the team on a single server hampers productivity and presents risks of organisational failure. The project will cover the costs of an IT consultation covering:
This consultation will enable the selection of the most appropriate IT system and the most cost-effective provider to implement the system, resulting in much-needed changes to Fair Trials’ IT systems, reflecting their growth and more complex needs.
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Falmouth 'Skype' Specialist Legal Advice Project
Grant: £71,000
July 28, 2017
The Project is to establish a ‘Skype’ advice clinic at the Dracaena Centre, and also to provide remote support to Cornwall CAB also largely using Skype. Staff solicitors at the Legal Advice Centre will provide free legal advice remotely to persons in need in Falmouth using a bank of Skype enabled computers at the Dracaena Centre. The clinics will run weekly on Monday and Fridays. The advice provided will be on Welfare Benefits and debt. Follow-up work will be undertaken by LAC lawyers.
Legal Advice Centre will provide the following to Cornwall CAB:
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Law Centres 2020 Digital Vision - Phase 2
Grant: £170,000
July 5, 2017
This project is transforming the digital infrastructure of Law Centres nationally.
Phase 1 established a minimum standard for digital equipment and systems across the network.
Phase 2 provides:
9 Law Centres with 190 users are participating in Phase 1. In Phase 2, the upgrade will be rolled out to a further 15 Centres with 300 users.
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Falmouth & Plymouth Skype Advice Clinics
Grant: £3,900
June 27, 2017
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Frontline Immigration Project: Increasing access to immigration advice for migrants
Grant: £80,000
June 21, 2017
The Frontline Immigration Advice Project is significantly improving access to quality, publicly-available OISC-accredited immigration advice for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants who have complex immigration issues. It is the first nationally-delivered project to do this, with a specific and dedicated focus on organisational capacity-building to secure OISC registration; improved advice coordination; and the sharing and adoption of best practice. The acute scarcity of this advice means thousands of vulnerable people are unable to attain justice, safety and dignity (Clayton, Models of Immigration Advice, 2015).
The project is empowering frontline support organisations in key sectors to increase the delivery of quality, sustainable immigration advice through an innovative capacity building programme, involving training, coaching, case-sharing, organisational development, and regional coordination. All geographical areas where there is asylum dispersal and migrant communities have been reached, engaging 86 individual organisations nationally to date. Year 2 and 3 will deliver tailored training packages and capacity building support to provide more routes to acquiring immigration advice registration, extend organisational support to offer an e-learning platform and strengthen regional immigration advice coordination.
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Taking Advantage of Digital
Grant: £50,000
June 21, 2017
The Unit will improve its digital provision, and transform its working practices, enabling it to fulfil its dual commitment to increase access to justice for those with unmet legal needs, and advance the practice skills, experience and knowledge of law students and professionals in the early stages of their careers. Our vision is “Streamlining and growing free representation and advocacy experience through seamless, intuitive and effective processes and systems, in secure, supported spaces.”
Using the “cloud” and associated digital tools, the Unit will make better use of its situation (i.e. increasing number of cases) and resources (i.e. staff, advice agencies and volunteers) to achieve the organisations objectives (which are coextensive with those of the Foundation).
The project will simplify and speed-up administrative processes for staff, improve accessibility and efficiency for volunteers and allow the creation of new educational and training content. Central to this is FRUweb – a network of simple, connected, secure, supported spaces where people, platforms and paper meet to enable clients, agencies, volunteers and staff, which provides interfaces and enables Hubs for each key stakeholder group.
This funding will support the project through a phased approach.
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Law Centres 2020 Digital Vision - Phase 1 Revision
Grant: £88,130
June 21, 2017
The project is transforming the Digital infrastructure of Law Centres nationally. It establishes a minimum (baseline) standard for digital equipment and systems across the network that will enable all Law Centres to:
The project will establish an ongoing subscription system to fund future upgrades and support.
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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:
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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.
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