This new, free, lunchtime webinar will look at the processes and strategies for challenging decisions by the LAA, including the process, review stage, independent adjudicator stage; the time limits involved and the relevant regulations.

We’ll think about how the LAA responds and how to counter their position; how to prepare for the Independent Adjudicator and also possibly considering sending a Pre-action Protocol letters where appropriate.

Please do come to this free event which is being run in person and hybrid - with many thanks to Garden Court Chambers who will are kindly hosting this at their London office.

We are holding this at fairly short notice on Tuesday March 11th to give us an opportunity to consider the current MoJ fee consultation and what community care lawyers can do to contribute to that.

In November 2024, as part of our Career Pathway work, ASC launched a Practitioners Association for Legal Aid Community Care Lawyers, the 'Community Care Lawyers Group' (CCLG). As its first activity, in January 2025 members of the group collaborated to write, in CCLG's own name, a response to the Law Commission consultation on Disabled Children's Socials Care Law…

Access Social Care and a Working Group of lawyers have come together to create the Community Care Lawyers Group (CCLG). Join us!

In 2022, Access Social Care conducted research on the decline in the number of legal aid practitioners in this area of law. We found that the nature and financial sustainability of the work had led to the decline. Here, we address some of the specific problems that community care practitioners face, including use of investigative representation under the legal aid scheme, and how practitioners can access further support.

Access Social Care, working in partnership with University of York, have piloted a Letter Writing Clinic where law students support Access Social Care clients to write a letter to their local authority about their social care issues.