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Warwick Law Students Address Social Housing Allocation Inequalities

As part of a collaboration with Warwick LinC and the Central England Law Centre Warwick Law students presented research and developed tools for law centre staff to use to support people facing delays in social housing allocation when they face a change of circumstances.

Thu 06 Jul 2023, 12:01 | Tags: law in the community News Social Justice

Warwick LinC Annual Report 2021 - 2022

Warwick School of Law's Law in the Community project has published its Annual Report for 2021/2022.

2021/22 has been a very positive year for Warwick Law in the Community (LinC). The first half of the year was affected by the ongoing impact of Covid-19 due to the necessity to limit in-person interactions in our clinics. However students managed to achieve a huge amount and and pursue excellent opportunities and returned to in-person work in the latter pat of the year.

Our Immigration and Asylum clinic focused on supporting Exceptional Case Funding applications for legal aid. Twelve students worked on the clinic, assisting with these applications and completing research tasks related to specific cases. Our Strategic Public Law Clinic has worked across three substantial new projects this year on issues related to homelessness, social care and poverty. The clinic has also continued to make use of the work of a number of previous years' projects and see real impact from this work. Our Public Legal Education Module students have worked with a range of organisations on four different projects related to housing-rights, precarious employment, carers’ rights and healthcare in immigration removal centres. LinC has also been involved in other projects which included working with Warwickshire County Council to produce a film for parents outlining their legal rights regarding school exclusions.

In 2021/2022 LinC provided 81 law students with opportunities to volunteer in the local community and build up their own skills outside their studies. To find out more about LinC's activities you can find our annual report hereLink opens in a new window.

Tue 17 Jan 2023, 11:23 | Tags: law in the community News

*Latest News* Warwick LinC and the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group release report on healthcare in Immigration Removal Centres

Warwick Law in the Community, working in partnership with Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, have published: The Right to Community Equivalent Healthcare in Immigration Removal Centres: A Public Law Analysis of Systemic Issues in the Inspection Regime.

Anyone who is detained by the state is entitled to receive health care which is equivalent in quality to that enjoyed in the wider community. For many years there has been a persistent and consistent concern about the quality of healthcare in immigration removal centres (IRCs), but the findings of statutory inspections have tended to find provision to be satisfactory.

This report asks whether there are systemic elements of the inspection scheme which inhibit its ability to apply the community equivalence principle. Drawing on work undertaken by LinC's Strategic Public Law Clinic between January 2020 and November 2021, it makes comparisons between the scheme used by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to quality assess community healthcare provision and that adopted to respond to the overlapping responsibilities of the CQC and His Majesty Inspectorate of Prisons for inspecting healthcare in IRCs.

Its recommendations call for fundamental reform not only to operational processes for gathering and analysing evidence, but also to the underpinning regulations which currently prevent the CQC from applying a ‘community equivalent’ approach.

Mon 07 Nov 2022, 15:05 | Tags: law in the community News Social Justice

Volunteering Opportunity with the Strategic Public Law Clinic – Rights in Food Justice Project

Warwick Law in the Community (LinC) is pleased to collaborate with the Central England Law Centre (CELC) to offer students a new volunteering opportunity with the Strategic Public Law Clinic (SPLC) on the Rights in Food Justice project.

If you missed the information session to learn more about the project (11/03/22), you can view the recording hereLink opens in a new window.

If you have any other questions about the opportunities, please email WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window.

Read more about the opportunity here.

Mon 07 Mar 2022, 14:21 | Tags: Opportunity law in the community News

Volunteering Opportunity with Warwick Law in the Community: School Exclusions Film Project

Warwick LinC have recently been approached by Warwickshire County Council to explore the issues surrounding school exclusions, and what could be done to support families and pupils going through this process to better understand their rights and advocate for themselves.

Students are welcome to join our MS Teams information session on Friday 19th November between 12 – 12:30pm to learn more about the project.

If you have any other questions about the opportunity, please email WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk

Read more about the opportunity and how to apply here.

Fri 12 Nov 2021, 10:57 | Tags: Opportunity News

Volunteering Opportunities with the Strategic Public Law Clinic and the Immigration and Asylum Clinic at the Central England Law Centre

Warwick Law in the Community (LinC) is pleased to collaborate with the Central England Law Centre (CELC) to offer students some exciting volunteering opportunities with the Strategic Public Law Clinic (SPLC) as well as the Immigration and Asylum Clinic (I&A).

Students are welcome to join our MS Teams information session on Monday 4th October between 4-5pm to learn more about LinC and this year’s opportunities with the team at CELC.

If you have any other questions about the opportunities, please email WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk

Read more about the opportunity here.

Mon 27 Sep 2021, 12:38 | Tags: Opportunity News

Congratulations to our summer 2021 Interns

Congratulations to Brianna Underwood, Alex Reay, Alex Iseghohi Okoibhole, Lily Bowater and Eve Smith, our summer 2021 interns.

Brianna, Alex and Alex will be working with Central England Law Centre teams on some exciting projects dealing with Public Law and Human Rights issues, Rights in Peril in the community and the setting up and running of 'Litigants in Person' evaluation study. Lily and Eve will be working with the LinC Team and Warwickshire County Council Education Entitlement Team to look at developing a School Exclusions pilot project where LinC students and the CC will look to develop support for children and families in this area. The projects will take place over June and July and we very much look forward to updating you on what's been achieved later in the Summer.

Our project partners were impressed by the incredibly high standard of applications this year. Thanks to everyone who took part.


Summer Internship Opportunities for LinC Students

This summer Warwick LinC in conjunction with Warwick University Innovation Fund is offering four new internship opportunities with Central England Law Centre (CELC), Warwickshire County Council & LinC.

All current and past volunteers involved in the Strategic Public Law Clinic, CELC’s Immigration and Asylum Clinic 2019-2021 and undergraduate students completing the Public Legal Education Module 2019-21 are eligible to apply.

Read more about our opportunities hereLink opens in a new window

  • Public Law and Human Rights Team Internship (Remote) – CELC
  • Rights in Peril Project Internship (Remote) – CELC
  • Litigants in Person Evaluation Internship (In-person) – CELC
  • School Exclusions Project Development Internship (Remote or in-person) – Warwickshire County Council and LinC

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