ACCESS DENIED! join our fight for an honest and open democracy. If you think it’s time for the government to stop keeping secrets about social care funding please take this short survey so we can pull together evidence for The Casey Commission in April. We don’t have much time so please fill it in today!

Please do come to this free event which is being run in person and hybrid - with many thanks to Garden Court Chambers who will are kindly hosting this at their London office.

We are holding this at fairly short notice on Tuesday March 11th to give us an opportunity to consider the current MoJ fee consultation and what community care lawyers can do to contribute to that.

In November 2024, as part of our Career Pathway work, ASC launched a Practitioners Association for Legal Aid Community Care Lawyers, the 'Community Care Lawyers Group' (CCLG). As its first activity, in January 2025 members of the group collaborated to write, in CCLG's own name, a response to the Law Commission consultation on Disabled Children's Socials Care Law…

In January 2023, under the Conservative administration, the Ministry of Justice commenced a Review of Civil Legal Aid (RoCLA) to "explore options for improving the long-term sustainability of the civil legal aid system". The process is ongoing. As well as attending all stakeholder meetings, together with our Working Group from the Career Pathway project we made the attached written submissions to ensure that the views of Community Care practitioners were represented in the process. The RoCLA process is continuing…

It has been over 3 months since our landmark court case which saw two Government departments attempt to overturn the decision that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) made in our favour. The ICO decision upheld that the government SHOULD reveal crucial data available on social care funding decision making because it is in the public interest.