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Community Legal Service (CLS)- Civil areas of work
Civil areas of work
Family
During the financial year 2005/06 we spent over £500 million on publicly funded family legal proceedings. This provided funding for almost 140,000 cases.
In the same year, we spent an additional £13.7 million funding family mediation. This helped almost 21,500 people to try to manage their relationship breakdown without going to court.
Legal aid providers should visit these pages for:
- the mediation contract
- family legal guidance and updates.
Immigration and asylum
We are working to increase access to advice for immigration and asylum clients.
This section describes our immigration policy for legal aid cases.
Legal aid providers should visit these pages for guidance on:
Social welfare
Social welfare law covers:
- community care
- debt
- employment
- housing
- welfare benefits.
We are working to provide integrated services in these areas by setting up Community Legal Advice Centres and Networks.
Mental health and other civil areas
Our work in these areas covers:
- mental health
- actions against the police
- clinical negligence
- consumer general contract
- education
- miscellaneous
- personal injury
- public law.
Specialist Support
This service is for legal aid providers.
We fund nine Specialist Support organisations to provide a second tier, expert service in civil categories of law to eligible organisations.
Specialist Support covers:
- housing
- welfare benefits
- debt
- employment
- immigration
- community care
- public law
- mental health.
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Last updated: 27 June 2008