https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779401/Working_Together_to_Safeguard-Children.pdf<\/a>, as well as PSI 08/2012 (\u2018care and management of young people\u2019) for public sector Young Offender Institutions. This can be viewed via https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2012/psi-08-2012-care-management-young-people.doc.<\/p> <\/p>
As per the Ministry of Justice\u2019s response to the recent report from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the PSI is to be updated. In advance of this, the Youth Custody Service has published Building Bridges, a policy framework that replaces some aspects of PSI 08/2012 relating to behavioural management of children (including promoting and maintaining good behaviour, managing challenging behaviour and offending behaviour interventions). This can be viewed at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-bridges-a-positive-behaviour-framework-for-the-children-and-young-people-secure-estate We are also working with the Department for Education to produce a new \u2018Keeping Children Safe in Custody\u2019 document, which we anticipated will be published in 2020.<\/p>
<\/p>
The YCS\u2019s Information Development Project is also working towards launching a revised and harmonised recording process for safeguarding referrals, across all sectors and establishments. The launch of the process will allow for uniform central reporting of safeguarding referrals, facilitating improved central oversight of these key liaisons.<\/p>
<\/p>
The YCS takes the safety and well-being of young people in custody very seriously. It has conducted an internal review of safeguarding across the youth secure estate, and a new \u2018Head of Safeguarding\u2019 post has also been created to lead on taking forward this important area of work.<\/p>"}
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The Government announced the review of the legal aid means test on 7 February 2019, as part of the Legal Support Action Plan.<\/p>
The review will consider the full range of means-testing criteria including the applicable thresholds for legal aid entitlement and their interaction with wider criteria.<\/p>
The review is in progress, bringing together data, evidence and expertise, and liaising with experts from across the field to explore potential improvements to the system.<\/p>
This comprehensive review of the legal aid eligibility regime is expected to conclude in summer 2020 after which we will publish a full consultation paper setting out our future policy on the proposals in this area. We will seek to implement any final recommendations as soon as practicable following public consultation.<\/p>"}
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Spend on language services increased in October 2016 as a result of an intentional move by the Ministry of Justice to increase the quality of the services. A new set of contracts commenced in 2016 which included various improvements based on independent recommendations made about the previous contract. These changes included a more robust performance management regime, improved data and the implementation of a new quality assurance service.<\/p>
<\/p>
Spend on Language Services is expected to fluctuate due to the nature of the contracts being demand led.<\/p>"}
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The Problem-Solving Courts Working Group was asked to advise on the feasibility of pilot models and its planned work did not include an implementation stage. The group concluded the workstreams set out in its published terms of reference and has not been reconvened.<\/p>
<\/p>
There remain barriers to testing or applying the problem-solving courts\u2019 approach in a meaningful way, including upfront resource implications and the need for primary legislation to implement some of the models being proposed, as well as gaps in evidence. However, we are testing and applying \u201cproblem-solving approaches\u201d, for example in the testbed sites for on the community sentence treatment requirement protocol and through our support for models applied in Family Drug and Alcohol Courts.<\/p>"}
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In England and Wales, legal aid can be provided if the matter or issue in question is within scope of the legal aid scheme, as defined in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).<\/p>
<\/p>
Legal aid is available for advice and assistance for all inquests, subject to a means and merits test. Legal aid funding for legal representation for a family, during an inquest hearing, is not in scope of LASPO. However, families are supported by coroners who can ask questions on their behalf to help them get the answers they need and we are developing a range of measures to improve this service further.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Government recognises that for certain inquests, bereaved people may require representation; legal aid may therefore be available, through the Exceptional Case Funding scheme, if certain criteria are met:<\/p>
<\/p>
(a) if a failure to provide such representation would breach, or likely risk a breach of, the government\u2019s obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights, usually Article 2; or<\/p>
(b) where the Director of Legal Aid Casework (DLAC) makes a determination that there is a \u2018wider public interest\u2019 in legal representation being granted.<\/p>
<\/p>
All individual case funding decisions are taken by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA). It is important that these decisions are, and are seen to be, free from political and Government influence.<\/p>"}
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Legal aid can be provided if the matter or issue in question is within scope of the legal aid scheme, as defined in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).<\/p>
<\/p>
Legal aid is available for advice and assistance for all inquests, subject to a means and merits test. Legal aid funding for legal representation for a family, during an inquest hearing, is not in scope of LASPO. However, families are supported by coroners who can ask questions on their behalf to help them get the answers they need and we are developing a range of measures to improve this service further.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Government recognises that for certain inquests, bereaved people may require representation; legal aid may therefore be available, through the Exceptional Case Funding scheme, if certain criteria are met:<\/p>
<\/p>
(a) if a failure to provide such representation would breach, or likely risk a breach of, the government\u2019s obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights; or<\/p>
(b) where the Director of Legal Aid Casework (DLAC) makes a determination that there is a \u2018wider public interest\u2019 in legal representation being granted.<\/p>
<\/p>
All individual case funding decisions are taken by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA). It is important that these decisions are, and are seen to be, free from political and Government influence.<\/p>
<\/p>"}
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The cost of the project to review the law on weddings and provide recommendations for a simple, fair and consistent system which gives couples choice in to marry in a way that is meaningful to them will be approximately £400,000.<\/p>
<\/p>
This cost is for the resource for two years of a project team made up of one full-time lawyer, one full-time research assistant, a proportion of the time of a team manager and some travel, publication and translation costs (totalling approximately £150,000 per year) plus the cost of engaging a specialist academic (£50,000 per year).<\/p>"}
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The Law Commission review that the Government announced this June is a fundamental review of the law on how and where people can legally marry in England and Wales. As part of that review, the Government invited the Law Commission to make recommendations about how marriage by humanist and other non-religious belief organisations could be incorporated into a revised or new scheme for all marriages that is simple, fair and consistent. The Government will consider the Law Commission\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>"}
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The legislative framework which governs family law proceedings about a child\u2019s upbringing is gender neutral and focused on the welfare of the child involved.<\/p>
The court is legally required to presume that the involvement of a parent in the life of the child will further that child\u2019s welfare, unless there is evidence to the contrary. The nature of any parental involvement will be determined by the court based on all the available evidence.<\/p>
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