LSC training grants axed

YLAL is bitterly disappointed to learn that the LSC will no longer be providing sponsored training contracts.
The provision of these contracts went some way toward sustaining the flow of talented entrants into the legal aid sector, and making sure that legal aid work is not a closed door to applicants from poorer backgrounds.

YLAL is bitterly disappointed to learn that the LSC will no longer be providing sponsored training contracts.
The provision of these contracts went some way toward sustaining the flow of talented entrants into the legal aid sector, and making sure that legal aid work is not a closed door to applicants from poorer backgrounds.
The withdrawal of these grants sends a very clear message that the LSC is not committed to quality or social mobility within the legal aid sector. This development will undermine the quality of advice and representation available to those who can not afford to pay for it, and will mean that legal aid lawyers become less and less representative of those who they work for.

See Guardian article here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jul/11/legal-aid

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Gazette article