Sector news

Latest news:

• Local Support Services Framework for Universal Credit: government outlines plans, and our response (March 2013)
• OISC arrangements for testing the competence of prospective immigration advisers are changing - AdviceUK pushes for provision of assessment centres outside London (March 2013)
• Universal Credit: AdviceUK shares Select Committee concerns about vulnerable people (November 2012)
• Cabinet Office Report and Advice Services Transition Fund (October 2012)
• Adult Social Care Reform (October 2012)
• August 2012 Legal Aid update, click here for a summary from the Advice Services Alliance

Archive

• Government Equalities Office (GEO) Contact Centre / Helpline Supplier Event

• Justice Select Committee report

• Birmingham citizens will be poorly served by ‘unworkable’ advice plans (March 2011)

• Labour Says Advice Matters (March 2011)

• Lib Dems Support Free Legal Advice (March 2011)

• Cabinet Office Hosts Summit on Advice Cuts (March 2011)

• Legal Aid Reform Proposals - AdviceUK responds (February 2011)

• Decentralisation and the Localism Bill - A briefing for AdviceUK members (January 2011)

• Universal Credit: Welfare that works (November 2010)
• Communitybuilders and advice (July 2010)
• Not the legal aid review (July 2010)
• Emergency Budget 2010: Independent advice will take the strain of cuts (June 2010)
• English Council funding cuts announced (June 2010)
• Asylum advice crisis (June 2010)
• New Government: Lobbying starts now for the advice sector (May 2010)
• Advice Services Alliance Manifesto (May 2010)
• Law Centres calls to next government (April 2010)
• Main party manifestos and advice (April 2010)
• Law Society Access to Justice Review interim report (April 2010)
• Legal Aid Review: LSC to go, Social Welfare Law spend devolved? (March 2010)
• Local authority options for improving advice - new LGA/IDeA report (March 2010)
• Smart Advice - AdviceUK calls for new thinking (March 2010)
• Rights with Meaning research report: Protecting the independence of advice and advocacy charities

• Legal Aid 2010 Procurement: Latest
• Turning the tide?  Evidence from the free advice sector on mortgage and secured loan possession actions in England in July 2009
• Regulating ‘Tesco Law’: Legal Services Board consults on licensing 'alternative business structures
• Preventing mortgage repossessions - joint letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Time Well Spent - new report about relationships between advice workers and clients (November 2009)
• DROs and pensions
• Support for mortgage interest
• Scotland's sector recession support fund
• Ministry of Justice publishes implementation plan
• Conservatives prefer grants
• Working Together for Advice - Communications: Planning and Strategy Workshop
• An alternative to CLACs and CLANs? Feasibility study in Wales asks questions 
• Real Help for Communities: Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises 
• Another CLAN bites the dust
• Legal aid agencies will have to pay for quality audits
• Immigration advice could be hit by more charges

• Advice Transition Fund
• Social Care Reform
• Legal Aid
• Welfare Reform
• Birmingham Cuts
• Labour: Advice Matters
• Cabinet Office Advice Cuts Summit
• Decentralisation/Localism
• Preventing mortgage repossessions
• Time Well Spent
• DROs and pensions
• Support for mortgage interest
• Personalisation
• Turning the tide?
• Rights with meaning
• LGA/IDeA report
• Law Centres' Calls
• Election Manifestos and Advice
• New Government
• Election 2010
• English Council Cuts
• RMJ crisis
• Emergency Budget 2010
• Communitybuilders
• Civil Legal Aid Contracts - latest developments - September 2010
• GEO Contact Centre / Helpline Supplier Event

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