It's had its critics but the @scotgov support package for the #LegalAid sector is up and running. £9m resilience fund for providers who've taken a hit on income; £10m fee increase; £1m for traineeships. Now, legal aid spend in 2019/20 in E&W was...
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https://www.gov.scot/news/legal-aid-resilience-fund/
around 12.5 times that in Scotland (£1.63b compared £130m). Difficult to compare systems of course, but a challenge to @MoJGovUK to *at the very least* match this: we'll have £113m emergency fund; £125m increase in fees; £12.5m for trainees; just to start to repair some...
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...of the damage from decades of cuts and to demonstrate how much the government appreciates the vital contribution that #LegalAid practitioners make to the justice system. Thank you very much - I'm sure the cheque in the post legal aid chums.
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