In brief
A tender process has been launched to run one of the country’s first publicly funded community legal advice centres. The joint funding initiative between the Legal Services Commission (LSC) and Leicester City Council combines a total budget of £2.7m for three years to provide the service. The centre, due to open in April, will bring together civil legal aid funded by the LSC with social welfare service funding. Tenders are invited from organisations that can supply general and specialist legal advice and representation in social welfare and family law. Interested parties have until 22 October 2007 to submit a full tender.
