LAPG is a membership body representing the interests of legal aid practitioners in England and Wales and the clients they serve. LAPG believes that access to justice is a fundamental right and as such we campaign for a fair, comprehensive and accessible legal aid scheme.
www.lapg.co.ukGrants
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)
Promoting Not-for-Profit Management and Governance
Grant: £70,000
November 14, 2018
This project is to support Not for profit advice providers to improve their management and governance capacity and expertise by:
- Continuing to facilitate their involvement in the LAPG CPM, by subsidising the costs of attending the course.
- Enabling Justice First Fellows to attend sessions that meet their individual development needs
- Delivering a workshop programme tailored to the needs of NfPs, with a particular focus on management and governance issues.
- Facilitating consultation arrangements with proven experts to integrate new ideas and best practice, as identified by NfPs through their involvement in the tailored workshop programme,
By offering a combination of workshop and online learning, back-up by targeted, expert assistance, it is planned to overcome the skills and resource deficit that hampers the development and undermines the sustainability of many NfP advice providers.
| 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 | ||
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)
Influencing Legal Aid Policy through Political Engagement
Grant: £99,814
June 20, 2018
Providing the Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid together with extending cross-party policy engagement activities and the provision of direct training to MPs and parliamentary staff as part of informing and influencing policy.
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| Staff in Voluntary Sector | ||
| 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 | ||
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)
Developing & Hosting an Introduction to Legal Aid Training Programme
Grant: £11,387
June 20, 2018
Developing and delivering a training programme providing an introduction to legal aid aimed at trainee solicitors, paralegals and other practitioners in order to promote best use of the legal aid scheme to help clients and to sustain legal practices.
| 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 | ||
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)
Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award - Access to Justice through IT Award
Grant: £30,000
December 12, 2016
| 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 | ||
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)
Future Advice - Supporting Effective Management
Grant: £91,000
November 6, 2016
- Continue the process of developing an NfP-specific workshop programme to encourage effective management and innovation
- Continue to develop an online repository of materials and resources to support effective management and innovation
- Facilitate the involvement of NfP advice providers in the LAPG CPM, by subsidising the costs of the attending the course
| 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 | ||
