George Colegate-Stone

This is the kind of cold, callous, inadequate & disrespectful comms sent out by @hackneycouncil officers to #Hackney’s hardworking Children’s Centre staff at affected centres who have been living with the possibility of losing their jobs for months/years for Fernbank. Shameful.

Big congratulations to campaigners fighting to save Hackney Children’s Centres for winning the first round in the battle @SebrightCC @Save_Fernbank

⚖️ Together with @Access2JusticeF, we are urging the government to provide more support for the free legal advice sector at "breaking point". Our new report has calculated the economic value of investing in free legal advice and found that the government saves three times what it spends. The repercussions of the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis mean that more and more people will face crises, putting the free legal advice sector under further strain. The new government should adopt a fresh approach and recognise this is an area where it can spend to save. Our Chair Samuel Townend KC said: "The report makes plain how a properly funded free legal advice sector would make a huge difference to the hundreds of thousands of people behind each case, those working in the system and the public purse in just one year alone.” Read the press release and the report: bit.ly/4d7H5Ne

🆕 from @LInvestigates and @prospect_uk on big profits at the cost of basic human rights in asylum accommodation in the UK prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…