Category: ILPA documents

Please find below ILPA’s note of the meeting held on the 25th February 2021. Also attached is a document outlining the questions and issues raised by ILPA and the Law Society which now includes the responses provided by UKVI.

Dear Member,  Welcome to your monthly well-being newsletter.  Written by Julianna Barker, Apprentice Legal Executive at Stone King LLP and ILPA Well-being Ambassador During these uncertain times ILPA is dedicated to ensuring that all members have access to information about free mental health and well-being resources In this edition we are focussing on the link between physical and mental […]

Members, thank you for all your continued support over the last difficult year. As we are coming into Spring our Well-Being Working group have some great tips and resources for you, see the latest newsletter here. WEBSITE We have now had the website in this format for a year – we’re keen to see it […]

Change of name for ILPA ‘BAME’ Working Group As discussed at the last BAME Working Group, we need to change the name of the group, while still recognising the work that we are doing and intend to do.  Please can you can submit your suggestions for the new name via this anonymous form: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FHRK6SX.  You can […]

Change of ILPA staffing: New Membership and Information Officer ILPA is very pleased to be able to welcome Violeta Tatu as our new Membership and Information Officer.   Violeta is a former educator and developing researcher, currently completing a part-time MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, University of London. Initially, she worked as an […]

Please see below, emailed to the Home Office on 25 March 2021.

Articles Entry clearance fee waiver policy withdrawn as unlawful Thousands of children in care risk missing deadline for EU settlement Scheme Inquiry into the state of the social justice sector as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic Activities Legal Activities Change of ILPA Staffing ILPA BAME Working Group name change SLF Update SLF Update Membership […]

Legal Activities – March 2021 ILPA’s Legal and Parliamentary Officer left at the beginning of this month, and our new recruit starts in May. Activities carried out by the Legal Director this month include continuing to meet with Sopra Steria to raise issues around document checklists, concerns around staff conduct, and lack of free appointments. […]

Inquiry into the state of the social justice sector as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic Prepared by Rohini Teather, Head of Parliamentary Affairs at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group The Westminster Commission on Legal Aid is a cross-party initiative formed by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid to look at the state […]