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Social Welfare and Immigration Legal Aid: Mapping need, provision and accessibility

社会福利和移民法律援助：了解需求、提供和可及性

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W00691X/1
负责人：
Jo Wilding
金额：
$ 31.08万
依托单位：
University of Sussex
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW00691X%2F1
关键词：
Social Welfare Immigration Legal Aid

项目摘要

Legal advice is vital to accessing asylum or immigration status and many social and welfare rights such as housing, welfare benefits, and community care. Yet access to legal advice has been affected by legal aid changes and local authority funding decisions (Organ and Sigafoos, 2017. As a result, some regions in the UK are 'advice deserts', where no free legal advice is available. However, my earlier work also described 'advice droughts', where services appear to exist but are inaccessible in practice because there are barriers to organisations doing the work or to clients using them. My work has shown that, in immigration law in England and Wales (E&W), cuts to funding cause conflict between quality of services, financial viability for providers, and access for clients. It is unclear whether the same applies for all categories of law and in all three legal aid models in the UK.This project examines access to legal advice across the UK, focussing on what the research characterises as the Social Welfare and Immigration Legal Aid (SWILA) sector. The research (acronym SWILAMap) extends my research from E&W to the four nations/three systems of the UK, focusing on housing, welfare benefits, community care and immigration work, which constitute a manageable, but reasonably representative, sample of the core SWILA work. SWILAMap takes a multi-layered geographical approach, examining the issues at cross-national, national and local levels. SWILAMap undertakes the first comparison of how the three different systems for legal aid delivery, in Scotland, Northern Ireland (NI), and England and Wales (E&W), affect organisations' ability to undertake the work, across the branches of the legal profession. It investigates the uneven geographies of legal need, legal advice provision, and accessibility of that provision to users.The Access to Justice Foundation (ATJF) is a non-academic partner. As a UK-wide charity funding access to justice and advice delivery projects, ATJF has a unique body of data on legal advice need, provision and local referral networks in its funding applications and grant reports. ATJF is keen to have this evidence used for research and to participate in the steering group and policy seminars.SWILAMap has three key sub-projects: 1) applying the Descriptive Mapping methodology, which I devised, to better understand regional and sub-regional variation in demand and supply in each category of SWILA, from both provider and user perspectives; 2) identifying local, national and cross-national barriers to provision and quality within the UK legal aid systems across different legal fields; and 3) using a Knowledge Exchange approach, with practitioners and policy-makers, to identify and overcome barriers to SWILA provision. Data will be collected through semi-structured interviews, and analysis of the ATJF application and grant report datasets, supported with Freedom of Information requests, ensuring thorough coverage of each of the areas of law and jurisdictions. I will collect the provider-side data and a Research Assistant (RA) will interview advice users. This will produce a unique qualitative dataset which will be thematically analysed drawing on concepts from socio-legal studies, social policy, geography and economics.SWILAMap is timely, as Wales moves towards a devolved justice system and Scotland reviews its legal aid system, thirteen years after E&W adopted marketisation and following a decade of hostile environment policies for immigration, public sector austerity and increased welfare conditionality. Accelerating movements towards remote justice, including remote delivery of legal aid services, may reduce geographical limitations but may also be unsuitable in many SWILA cases; the pandemic offers new evidence on this. The research is supported by an inter-disciplinary academic advisory group and steering group drawn from across the UK, which will ensure academic and policy relevance.

法律的建议对于获得庇护或移民身份以及许多社会和福利权利，如住房，福利和社区护理至关重要。然而，获得法律的咨询受到法律的援助变化和地方当局资助决定的影响（Organ和Sigafoos，2017年。因此，英国的一些地区是“咨询沙漠”，那里没有免费的法律的咨询。然而，我早期的工作也描述了“咨询干旱”，服务似乎存在，但在实践中无法访问，因为有做工作的组织或客户使用它们的障碍。我的工作表明，在英格兰和威尔士（E&W）的移民法中，削减资金会导致服务质量，提供者的财务可行性和客户的访问之间的冲突。目前还不清楚是否同样适用于所有类别的法律和在所有三个法律的援助模型在英国，这个项目审查获得法律的咨询意见在整个英国，重点是什么研究的特点作为社会福利和移民法律的援助（SWILA）部门。该研究（缩写SWILAMap）将我的研究从E&W扩展到英国的四个国家/三个系统，重点关注住房，福利，社区护理和移民工作，这些工作构成了SWILA核心工作的一个可管理的，但具有合理代表性的样本。SWILAMap采用多层次的地理方法，在跨国家、国家和地方各级审查问题。SWILAMap首次比较了苏格兰、北方爱尔兰（NI）以及英格兰和威尔士（E&W）的三种不同的法律的援助提供系统如何影响组织在各个分支机构开展工作的能力。法律的职业。它调查了法律的需求，法律的咨询服务，以及该服务对用户的可访问性的不均衡地理位置。作为一个全联合王国的慈善机构，为诉诸司法和提供咨询的项目提供资金，ATJF在其资金申请和赠款报告中拥有关于法律的咨询需求、提供和地方转介网络的独特数据库。SWILAMap有三个主要的子项目：1）应用我设计的描述性绘图方法，从供应商和用户的角度更好地了解每个SWILA类别的需求和供应的区域和次区域差异; 2）在联合王国不同法律的领域的法律的援助系统内，确定地方、国家和跨国的提供和质量障碍; 3）与从业人员和政策制定者采用知识交流办法，确定和克服SWILA提供的障碍。数据将通过半结构化访谈和ATJF申请和赠款报告数据集的分析收集，并得到信息自由请求的支持，确保全面覆盖法律和司法管辖区的每个领域。我将收集供应商端数据，研究助理（RA）将采访建议用户。这将产生一个独特的定性数据集，将从社会法律的研究，社会政策，地理和economics.SWILAMap的概念进行专题分析，是及时的，随着威尔士走向下放司法系统和苏格兰审查其法律的援助系统，十三年后，E&W通过市场化和以下十年的敌对环境政策的移民，公共部门紧缩和增加福利条件。加快实现远程司法，包括远程提供法律的援助服务，可能会减少地理限制，但在许多SWILA案件中也可能不合适;这一流行病提供了这方面的新证据。这项研究得到了来自英国各地的跨学科学术咨询小组和指导小组的支持，这将确保学术和政策的相关性。