New £2.7m Legal Advice centre to help more Leicester residents
Posted on 23 March 2008 by Contributor
Better legal services for Leicester residents are on their way as a tender launches to run one of the country’s first ever publicly-funded Community Legal Advice centres.
This joint funding initiative between the Legal Services Commission (LSC) and Leicester City Council combines a total budget of £2.7 million for three years to provide the service.
The centre will bring together civil legal aid funded by the LSC with social welfare service funding contributed by the council to provide better help for people in greatest need, to provide more coordinated and cost-effective services and to be more able to tackle the common causes of local problems.
Residents visiting the centre will be able to get legal help and representation for a range of social welfare and family problems at the same time.
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