Immigration contracts
On this page:
- About the 2010 Standard Civil Contract
- Contract guidance
- Immigration and Asylum Graduated Fee Scheme
- Immigration Advice in Immigration Removal Centres
- Immigration Advice at the Police Station
About the 2010 Standard Civil Contract
All our civil legal aid providers must sign a contract with us. The 2010 Standard Civil Contract for civil legal aid providers replaces our Unified Contract from 15 November 2010.
The 2010 Standard Civil Contract regulates how civil legal aid work is funded by the Community Legal Service (CLS). This makes sure we get competent, quality assured, best value contract work.
To view the contract documents, please visit the 2010 Standard Civil Contracts page.
17 December 2010 – Publication of outcome of tender process
Outcomes of the Immigration tender process have now been published on the tender pages of the LSC website. The list of contract holders has been separated into two documents – one listing the results in London and another listing the outcomes in all Procurement Areas outside of London.
Contract validation is still ongoing and a number of contracts are yet to be issued, therefore these lists are subject to change.
Contract guidance
- FAQs effective from 15 November 2010 are under Documents.
- The Civil and Immigration Specifications are available in the 2010 Standard Civil Contract section of this website.
- The Civil Codes Guidance is available in the Immigration CMRF section of our Controlled Work Forms page.
- A revised version of the Funding Code Decision Making Guidance – Section 29, effective from 15 November 2010, is available on What cases do we fund? > Non family Guidance page.
- Further to recent audits by the National Audit Office we have published additional guidance on the use of Matter Type, Stage Reached and Outcome codes - see related documents.
Immigration and Asylum Graduated Fee Scheme
This fee scheme applies to all immigration cases opened and the majority of asylum cases lodged with the Home Office on or after 1 October 2007.
Visit the Payrates and schemes page to read more.
Immigration Advice in Immigration Removal Centres
In 2005, we piloted the provision of ‘on site’ immigration advice within Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).
Organisations were then invited to tender to provide services for individuals detained at the following IRCs:
- Campsfield
- Colnbrook
- Dover
- Harmondsworth
- Haslar
- Lindholme
- Tinsley House
- Brook House
- Yarl’s Wood.
There are two parts to our Immigration Removal Centre Advice Scheme;
- Onsite surgeries at all nine IRCs;
- Fast Track services at Harmondsworth and Yarl’s Wood.
Immigration advice at the police station
Following a successful pilot in 2006, organisations tendered to provide one-off pieces of immigration legal advice, by telephone on a rota basis, to clients detained at police stations.
The scheme allows clients to:
- clarify their rights and legal position on their immigration status
- clarify any actions they may need to take
- understand what is likely to happen to them and, in some cases resolve the matter without the need for further representation
One organisation per week covers all calls during a ‘Rota Week’, running from Monday to Sunday between 7am and 12 midnight each day.
Police station staff place calls with a call centre, which refers the calls to the organisation on the rota for that week.
Last updated: 21 December 2010