Campaigns

Advice Leeds partners are developing a Social Policy Network to campaign on issues that affect our clients.

As well as providing advice to individuals, part of our role is to campaign on Social Policy issues that are affecting our clients. In this regular series of briefings, we highlight how local and national social policies impact on the people we work with.

Legal Aid Reforms

The proposed changes to Legal Aid will have a signifiacnt impact on the provision of legal advice in key areas such welfare rights, housing and debt. Please join us in supporting the Justice for All campaign and lobbying against these changes.

Read our submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-11

Justice for All Campaign

Justice for All is the campaign to ensure everyone is treated fairly under the law, no matter who they are, how much money they have or where they live.

The Justice for All campaign is calling for the protection of access to justice at a time when the recession and government changes to vital support are driving more people to seek advice.

The coalition campaign invites everyone who believes in justice for all to join.

For more infomation about the campaigh visit the Justice for All website

In this briefing we look at the recent Comprehensive Spending Review and the likely impact on Child Poverty in Leeds.

Previous briefings

Our first briefing focused on the anticpated impact of the recently announced cuts to welfare benefits and tax credits for people in Leeds.

The briefing above provides some examples to illustrate the impact of some of these changes on typical households in Leeds. Here we provide some further details about these examples and how we reached our conclusions.

Briefing October 2010 - Further information

For more information contact:

Susan Wood – Advice Leeds Manager

Phone: 0113 202 1831

Email: susan.wood@leedscab.org.uk