Increasing the Scope and Scale of PLE in Northern Ireland

Grant: £46,461
November 10, 2015

The aim of this project is to affect a measurable improvement of young people in Northern Ireland’s understanding of the law and their capability to use it by:

• Increasing the number of young people from economically disadvantaged areas of Northern Ireland that take part in the Citizenship Foundation’s Bar Mock Trial.
• Increasing the number of young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in Northern Ireland that can take part in the Citizenship Foundation’s Lawyers in Schools programme.
• Increasing the number of young people at Integrated Colleges in Northern Ireland who take part in Bar Mock Trials and Lawyers in Schools.

The programme of work is:

• Establish a second Bar Mock Trials heat in a Derry in 2016 to; make it more accessible to more schools and colleges, build on the experience of and learnings from the second Belfast heat 2015 of Bar Mock Trials and build a sustainable model for the future.
• Deliver 12 Lawyers in Schools sessions at a school or college in Northern Ireland that draws its students from both Catholic and Protestant communities in an area of economic disadvantage – with the objective of building a self-sustaining Lawyers in Schools programme in Northern Ireland.