{"id":78184,"date":"2017-01-20T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ea1772fb6e9bb7e9f43b5bf00cfce978"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:04:42","slug":"news-story-civil-news-our-approach-to-civil-legal-aid-work-from-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78184","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: our approach to civil legal aid work from 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A headline intentions document is now available setting out our approach for civil legal aid contracts from 2018.<br \/>\nWe intend to award new contracts with services starting from 1 April 2018. The new contracts will be for specialist legal advice delivered both face to face and via the Civil Legal Advice telephone helpline.<\/p>\n<p>A tender for these contracts will open in April 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"service-delivery-remains-similar\">Service delivery remains similar<\/h3>\n<p>We intend to keep services broadly similar to how they are delivered under current contracts. We are not proposing any significant amendment to specialist telephone advice contracts.<\/p>\n<p>However, we do intend to make a small number of changes to our approach to commissioning face to face services. The key changes are set out in the headline intentions document.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"housing-possession-court-duty-scheme\">Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme<\/h3>\n<p>The headline intentions document includes details of how the Housing Possession Court Scheme will be managed. A government policy consultation about this small area of work is also now available.<br \/>\nThe proposal is to run a competitive tender for this work which will include an element of price in the criteria for awarding a contract.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-2018-contracts-tender\">Civil 2018 contracts tender<\/a> \u2013 to download headline intentions document<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/consult.justice.gov.uk\/digital-communications\/housing-possession-court-duty-scheme\">HPCDS consultation<\/a> \u2013 to download document<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline intentions document covering civil legal aid contract work from 2018 published on 20 January 2017.<\/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\/78184"}],"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=78184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}