Please take a moment to help us shape the way that immigration legal aid cases for separated and unaccompanied children are funded once reinstated within the scope of legal aid.
We understand that legal aid lawyers may have changed their case profile and practices to take account of the effects of LASPO. Reinstatement of legal aid for vulnerable children will only be effective if legal aid lawyers are willing and able to take cases on for these children.
We would therefore like to better understand the factors that may affect legal aid lawyers’ decisions as to whether to take on immigration cases for unaccompanied and separated children once these fall back in scope, in the hope that we can negotiate the best possible scenario for children and legal aid practitioners.
Please find a link to our survey below. It should take approximately 3 minutes to complete:
