{"id":50503,"date":"2014-11-20T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7c4cc80f9d2167ca4e10ec393daaab6a"},"modified":"2014-11-20T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T12:20:18","slug":"news-story-civil-news-reminder-for-mental-health-providers-doing-tribunal-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50503","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: reminder for mental health providers doing tribunal work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mental health providers are reminded of the restrictions on advocacy before the First-tier Tribunal that were introduced on 1 August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of self-employed counsel, individuals must be accredited to carry out legally-aided representation before the tribunal under the 2014 standard civil contract.<\/p>\n<p>The relevant accreditation is available through the Law Society\u2019s mental health accreditation scheme \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>This restriction is an important step in improving the quality of representation at the tribunal and has been welcomed by all stakeholders working in this area.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"accreditation-checks\">Accreditation checks<\/h3>\n<p>Providers should be aware we will be checking that advocacy has been carried out by an appropriately accredited individual when assessing these files.<\/p>\n<p>This includes all file reviews, assessments and audits carried out by our teams in operational assurance, contract management, and the mental health unit\u2019s escape fee team.<\/p>\n<p>Any advocacy that has been incorrectly claimed will be reduced down on assessment, and the breach of contract will be referred the firm\u2019s contract manager to consider further action.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any question about the new rules, please email our mental health unit by emailing \u2013 see below.        <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:MHU-EC@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">Email questions<\/a> about the new rules<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lawsociety.org.uk\/accreditation\/specialist-schemes\/mental-health\/how-to-apply\/\">Law Society mental health accreditation scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/mental-health-tribunal\/apply-to-tribunal\">Mental health tribunal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/standard-civil-contract-2014\">Standard civil contract 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on mental health providers carrying out advocacy work in the first-tier tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}