Transforming legal aid
On this page:
- Creating a sustainable legal aid scheme
- Progressing legal aid reform
- How we're working to improve efficiency
- For more information
Creating a sustainable legal aid scheme
Through our dedicated advice providers, the LSC helps more than two million people each year get help with their legal problems.
But the growing demand for help and the fact that our budget is limited means fundamental change is necessary. We must move to a system that pays for services delivered for clients rather than hours worked. We need to make sure that legal aid remains available to those who need it.
To meet this challenge our transformation programme will create a sustainable legal aid scheme that delivers:
- a network of providers who deliver quality, value for money and client focused services
- access to quality legal advice for clients
- value for money for the taxpayer.
Progressing legal aid reform
We have delivered the first phase of our reform programme. Visit the pages in this section to read more about our:
- agreement with The Law Society and the Ministry of Justice re: the Court of Appeal judgment on the Unified Contract
- 'next steps' paper for legal aid reform
- The way ahead for legal aid reform paper.
How we're working to improve efficiency
Our ‘whole system initiatives’ project will improve efficiency across the civil and criminal justice systems.
We're also looking at using expert services.
For more information
Visit the Transforming civil legal aid and Transforming criminal legal aid pages for more detail on changes to our legal aid schemes.
Visit the About us>Transforming ourselves page for details on how we are transforming our internal processes.
Last updated: 29 May 2008