Report: Legal Aid Cuts Simply Store Up Social Problems For Tomorrow
The report, titled 'Not Seen and Not Heard', highlights the effects of the removal of legal aid and access to advice for children and young people, directly and indirectly.
‘Not Seen and Not Heard’, which is indorsed by the Children’s Commissioner, is the product of collaboration between two campaigning groups: the JustRights campaign, which the Law Centres Federation coordinates together with Youth Access, and the Sound Off for Justice campaign.
The report makes for a sobering read as it illuminates the effect that proposed cuts to legal aid are expected to have on the welfare of children and young people. This at a time when so many of them live in deprivation through their parents’ poverty, or through being unemployed and not in education or training, or yet through being homeless themselves.
Read the press release here: SOFJ-JuRi_Press_Release_13.9_.2011_.doc
Published: Tue 13 Sep, 2011
