Assesment Of Legal Aid Cuts In Uk
The Social impact of the current and proposed (2010 onwards) Government spending cuts is going to be significant
. The groups of people typically disadvantaged by those cuts will be ethnic monitories, women, disabled, single parents and those on lower incomes: all people who tend to have complicated debt, housing and welfare issues.
The effects of the benefit cuts totalling 7billion announced in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review, on top of the 11 billion already announced as part of the Emergency Budget last year, will be far reaching. Inevitable cuts to public services, along with the cuts in welfare and tax credits spending, will have an adverse impact on many benefit claimants. Those on the lowest incomes, women and families will be hardest hit by the combined effect of these changes.
The Law Centres Federation has calculated that law centres will lose 5m or 55 cut in local authority funding and a 50 decrease in their budgets, leaving 3.5 million problems unresolved. In the last year CAB showed a 4.
The Government is also proposing an overhaul of the way in which Legal Aid is funded. This will see Legal Aid cut for divorce cases, welfare benefits issues, school exclusion appeals, employment issues and clinical negligence compensation claims.
The Government is to cut the Legal Aid bill by 350million every year. Society's most vulnerable people will be unfairly affected and thousands of people will be unable to pursue legitimate cases. In some CAB offices, Legal Aid fees make up a high proportion of income, meaning some CAB offices may even have to shut if the changes to legal aid go ahead.
The eligibility rules for Legal Aid are set to change, which will negatively impact 1 in 10 Legal Aid clients. Under the new scheme, people will be expected to contribute 30. This means that many people won't be able to pursue their case through the courts. Thousands of people will no longer be eligible at all.
According to the Citizens Advice Bureau, these changes "would take whole areas of law 'out of scope' - including welfare benefits and employment. Advice on housing and debt would be restricted to cases with an 'immediate risk' of homelessness and help with many family law issues would only be available in cases of domestic violence."
15% of all CAB income comes from Legal Aid and there are many other not-for-profit organisations which will also be affected by the proposed changes.
The social, economic and political aspects of the provision of Legal Aid in the UK means that there is an ever increasing need for affordable, accessible, accurate and timely legal advice.
As for technology, use of the Internet as a source of information is ubiquitous. According to the Office of National Statistics, there were 19.2 million households with an Internet connection in 2010, representing 73 per cent of households. The region with the highest level of access was London, with 83 per cent; the lowest was the North East, with 59 per cent.
When adults were asked why their household did not have an Internet connection, the most common response was that they didn't need it, at 39 per cent, followed by 21 per cent who said a lack of skills prevented them from having the Internet. The Home Access programme launched by the Labour Government (and now closed) enabled 270,000 low income families to get access to a computer and the internet.
The next stage is to help people see the internet as a source of knowledge, not just information. Knowledge is gained from experience and the interpretation of information. Technology underpins this initiative, enabling us to seek advice from wherever the expert happens to be, and dispensing it to wherever the customer happens to be.
by: Lloyd Barrett
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