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Kensington and Chelsea Advice Forum
Kensington and Chelsea Advice Forum (formerly known as VAAF) is an alliance of the main advice providers in Kensington & Chelsea.
It meets up to five times a year. Its aims and objectives include:
- to assess and periodically review the current level of provision of advice services in order to ensure that people have access to appropriate services when and where they need them;
- to co-ordinate the future funding of services;
- to facilitate the development of referral arrangements;
- to encourage new initiatives in the delivery of advice services;
- to try and mitigate the need for advice services by identifying common problems that lead to a need for advice and developing working partnerships with statutory authorities in order to identify better ways of working.
Advice News
Mon 16/01/2012
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is facing the biggest legal aid cuts in the whole of London with housing, employment, debt, welfare benefits and immigration advice services all affected.
Proposals to reform Legal Aid are currently going through Parliament and could come into effect as early as October 2012.
Currently over 2,500 local Kensington and Chelsea residents are benefiting from legal aid funded advice in the ‘social welfare law’ areas outlined above (excluding immigration) and stand to lose out if the changes come into effect.
A new report on the impact of these cuts on the not for profit sector has been published by the Legal Action Group. It has found that 88 per cent of Londoners believe advice services should be free to everyone, or to people on or below the national average income of £25,000.
Download the Executive Summary here
Download the full London Advice Watch report from the Legal Action Group website.
- Justice for All is a campaign for free legal advice. It produce regular updates on the Legal Aid Bill as it passes through parliament. Visit the Justice for All website here.
- Sound Off For Justice is a campaign to stop the cuts to legal aid. They have an online petition you can sign here
Thu 20/10/2011
At a time when cuts to legal aid are taking place, Justice for All is a campaign which is fighting to ensure that everyone no matter who they are is able to access free independent advice and representation on legal matters.
At such a crucial time when more people are requiring advice on social housing, debt and unemployment, legal aid is under threat and so are the agencies that provide free advice.
Read the latest Justice for All newsletter.
To join the legal aid campaign please visit the website Justice for All.
You can also sign a petition to support the Justice for All campaign.
Mon 01/08/2011
National homelessness charity, Crisis have produced an update on how housing benefit changes are likely to impact on benefit recipients and families.
The warn that the introduction of a cap on the amount claimants can receive will adversely affect some of the most disadvantaged in society and are likely to lead to an increase in homelessness.