{"id":84040,"date":"2017-09-06T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=71ccaf2cfcc8e6c484163b0e220b6d64"},"modified":"2017-09-06T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:17:08","slug":"news-story-civil-news-pilot-aims-to-cut-paperwork-for-certificated-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84040","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: pilot aims to cut paperwork for certificated work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Bristol providers invited to join a pilot to simplify certificated work processes in certain family proceedings have until 15 September to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot scheme is due to start on Monday 25, September 2017 and those providers invited have been contacted directly.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will involve legal aid certificates being granted with a wider limitation for scope or costs restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow providers to free up administrative time currently spent collating and submitting evidence before they can carry out work.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"why-are-we-doing-this\">Why are we doing this?<\/h3>\n<p>We want to reduce the paper burden for providers because this will allow them to act more quickly for clients and spend less time having to contact us for further information.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no changes to fee schemes, claimable work or Legal Aid Agency (LAA) evidence requirements and no impact on court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>It just means evidence LAA needs to see can be submitted when proceedings are concluded rather than upfront.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"more-time-for-complex-work\">More time for complex work<\/h3>\n<p>An added benefit is that our caseworkers will have more time to spend on complex applications and providing a quality service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline is 15 September 2017 for Bristol providers invited to take part in pilot scheme.<\/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\/84040"}],"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=84040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}