Welcome to the Training & Support Page

Here, you will find an overview of our current courses. We offer legal aid specific training as well as management training for private practice and not-for-profit agencies. To see what courses are currently on offer in each category, please press the ‘Read More’ button.

Online Legal Aid Training

We are developing a series which provides a general introduction to the civil legal aid scheme and the various categories of legal aid aimed at trainees, paralegals, junior lawyers and those that wish to refresh their knowledge having worked in the sector for some time. They are online self-study modular courses that you complete at your own pace, with external links for up-to-date Legal Aid Agency information.

We also offer a Legal Aid Supervision Course as well as a Toolkit to help your organisation manage their Civil & Family Legal Aid Contract.

Management Training

Management training delivered by experienced organisational development consultants that will equip you with the tools you need to manage effectively. We offer a range of training that covers relevant topics using various forms of delivery. These training courses are aimed at those working in Private Practice.

Our Management & Leadership Programme is the most comprehensive management and leadership training programme for the non-profit specialist advice sector, developed by Matthew Howgate and Vicky Ling following extensive research with practitioners.

We are always happy to develop courses for members and to run courses in-house.

Please contact us to discuss your needs.

Training Calendar

OUR RESOURCES

Campaigns

Review some of the work we do in the sector.

LAPG Annual Conference

Practitioners join us from all over England and Wales and have the opportunity to engage with officials from MOJ policy teams and the LAA, and students from various universities and colleges.

LAPG Responses to Consultations

HPCDS Consultation

Read our full response here

AGFS Consultation

Read our full response here.

LAPG Annual Reviews

Download our Annual Reviews below, which highlight our work and achievements across our three work strands:

Building a Community of legal advice providers and to support that community through training, conferences and events.

Enabling legal aid practitioners to provide quality services to their clients by providing operational support.

Influencing policy and decision-makers to make the legal aid scheme simpler, fairer, more accessible and capable of facilitating access to justice.