The Government has agreed, in open correspondence, to amend the Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 to expressly allow for legal aid certificates to be backdated to the date of application for legal aid.
Read the Duncan Lewis article here.
‘Undue focus’ on pupils’ race risks ‘over-complicating’ exclusions, says judge
28th April 2025
School ‘vindicated’ after ruling it acted lawfully when it excluded a boy of black Caribbean heritage Read the full article in Schools Week here.
Adoption fund to continue after families ‘left in limbo’
2nd April 2025
A fund to provide therapy for adopted children will continue, the government has confirmed, after families criticised uncertainty over its future. Families had been calling
This is the devastating impact growing up in temporary accommodation has on children’s GCSE results
1st April 2025
Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has called on decision makers to talk more about what it’s like for children to grow up homeless after
