{"id":91709,"date":"2018-05-09T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7d4f6b4a356008fbc9ef223a399220ff"},"modified":"2018-05-09T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:59:39","slug":"news-story-civil-news-funding-for-victims-of-modern-slavery-and-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91709","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: funding for victims of modern slavery and trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in immigration cases continue to be entitled to legal aid funding.<\/p>\n<p>A court declaration, agreed with the LAA, clarified the scope of funding for immigration services available to victims of trafficking or modern slavery.<\/p>\n<p>This funding is available irrespective of whether:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>a formal application is made for leave to remain, or<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>this is automatically considered under the modern slavery victims\u2019 discretionary leave policy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The court declaration confirms the basis on which legal aid is available under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"where-can-i-find-out-more\">Where can I find out more?<\/h3>\n<p>The full text of the declaration and an explanation of how LASPO is applied in these circumstances is available for download on GOV.UK.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/work-out-who-qualifies-for-civil-legal-aid\">Work out who qualifies for civil legal aid<\/a> \u2013 to download \u2018clarification of funding in trafficking cases\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrative Court endorses declaration clarifying when modern slavery and human trafficking victims are entitled to immigration funding.<\/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\/91709"}],"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=91709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}