New to managing a legal aid contract?

Legal aid contracts are complex and cumbersome. Managing your contract well can be the difference between success and failure.

We have developed a Toolkit that draws together key information to enable practices to understand their legal aid contract. Particularly useful for those new to delivering legal aid, it links to more detailed sources from the LAA, LAPG and others. Designed as a comprehensive resource for the people in your organisation responsible for day to day management of your legal aid contract.

The Toolkit has seven main headings:
  • Some Key Changes Between the 2018 Civil Contract and the 2024 Civil Contract
  • Contracts Overview
  • Key Issues Under the Standard Civil Contract 2024
  • Managing Casework
  • Managing Billing
  • Managing Quality & Compliance
  • Sources of Support
The Community Board notifies subscribers of all official amendments/additions to the contract and supporting documents. Updates will be incorporated into the Toolkit, which will be kept under constant review. The Community Board is a peer network which enables subscribers to interact with others managing contracts.
Hosted on our learning platform, Thinkifc, the Toolkit is an intuitive and easily navigable resource.

This is an LAPG resource that is managed and reviewed by LAPG

Vicky Ling has spent her career in the advice and legal sector and has worked with a wide range of solicitors’ firms and not for profit legal practices. She is a Chartered Quality Professional and provides expert consultancy support in relation to practice management and legal aid service delivery issues and has written extensively on these topics. She edits the LAG Legal Aid Handbook.

Matthew Howgate is an Organisation Development Consultant and Director of the LAPG Management & Leadership Hub. He started his career as a legal aid solicitor and has spent the last 15 years working as a consultant across the legal aid and advice sectors.

This annual subscription will keep you up to date and regularly informed of all key changes.

  • LAPG Members: £100 per annum
  • Non-members of LAPG: £400 per annum

Included in your purchase is the Toolkit itself as well as access to a Community Board.

Subscribe to the toolkit here

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