We believe if people have the knowledge, skills and confidence to recognise situations where there are legal rights that protect them, they will avoid problems. Where they do encounter a problem, they will be able to identify if there may be a legal solution and so be able to use the law more effectively to tackle it.
We’ve been piloting partnerships with organisations to embed a rights-based approach to their work, as well as working with individuals to build their legal capability. Our programmes of work are helping us understand how best to engage individuals in activities that will build their knowledge of when legal rights might offer them protection and the confidence to then use those rights to solve their issue. We’re also developing new and innovative ways to support non-advice organisations to build a rights-based approach into their work with the most vulnerable people and we’re building a clear understanding of the characteristics that define organisations who are most likely to successfully to so.
Funded by Barrow Cadbury, Benefits Aware is an expert-led collaboration that is building a community of claimants and advisers who are informed and ready to cope with the ongoing changes being brought about by the Government’s Welfare Reform programme. Read more
Upholding the legal rights of pregnant women and young mothers who are or have been in the care system. Download free resources and access short tutorials on the legal framework for the support and protection of vulnerable children and care leavers. Read more
RIPPLE is a unique model of public legal education (funded by the Legal Education Foundation) to health and social care service-users and/or their carers and the organisations that advocate and support them. Read more