Health Justice Partnerships Insights and Learning Session
Health Justice Partnerships Insights and Learning Session This session welcomed an audience of both advice sector and health care providers with speakers Dame Hazel Genn and Dr Sarah Beardon both from University College London to present their evidence, research, and learning generated from over a decades worth of work exploring the link between Health and Justice. […]
The Funding Gap – Free Legal Advice Sector 2023-24
The Funding Gap – Free Legal Advice Sector 2023-24 The Community Justice Fund has published its third annual review of the financial health of the free legal advice sector in order to give a broad indication of the issues faced by advice services at the frontline. The report makes clear that Community Justice Fund grantee […]
Community partnerships to address crisis Insights and Learning Session
Community Partnerships to Address Crisis Insights and Learning Session This session looked in depth look at the evaluation of a cross sector project called the Community Coordinated Support Programme run by The Children’s Society to update understanding and gain more detailed insights into the experiencing of building and maintaining formal partnerships across councils, communities, and advice […]
Specialist Legal Advice Funding Report
Mapping Specialist Legal Advice Funding Working together with 360 Giving, we have published a report which begins to map funding to specialist legal advice providers, and the relationship between income streams. Using data and analysis from 360Giving, the report provides a profile of the sector providers and where available, information on what was being funded, […]
Blended Delivery Insights and Learning Session
Blended Delivery Insights and Learning Session The aim of the session was to understand what the research tells us both about the efficacy of blended service delivery models, also referred to as hybrid services, and the experience of those at the frontline adapting their services to build in blended models. Dr Jess Mant from Monash […]
The Funding Gap – Free Legal Advice Sector 2022-23
The Funding Gap – Free Legal Advice Sector 2022-23 Our latest research shows that the not-for-profit specialist advice sector is facing a £17.5 million funding deficit in 2022-23. This will result in over 36,800 vulnerable people losing access to specialist advice, and as a consequence many of them will fall into crisis. This latest research […]
Defending the public purse: The economic value of the free legal advice sector
Defending the public purse: The economic value of the free legal advice sector New economic research shows that Treasury would save over £4bn next year alone by supporting free legal advice for the most vulnerable. Modelling shows that this will result in a further 235,000 people remaining in the workforce, with additional tax revenues of […]
Pro Bono Costs Orders Awareness Project Reports
Pro Bono Costs Orders Awareness Project Reports The Cambridge Pro Bono Project, a programme within the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge, was invited by the Access to Justice Foundation to conduct research into the pro bono costs scheme currently operating in the civil courts in England and Wales. The aim of the research […]