Community Legal Service (CLS)

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About the Community Legal Service
Free, confidential and independent legal advice
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About the Community Legal Service

The Community Legal Service (CLS) is a network of organisations that funds, provides and promotes civil legal services from general information to advice and representation.

This section contains:

information, guidance and resources for providers of CLS services
details of developments affecting the CLS of interest to all our stakeholders.

Read general information about the CLS here.

Free, confidential and independent legal advice

Worried about benefits or tax credits?
Having problems with your child’s school?
Are your debts out of control?
Are you being treated unfairly at work?
Are you having problems with your landlord?

Community Legal Advice can help with these kinds of problems if you are eligible for legal aid.

Call the helpline now on 0845 345 4345.

Calls cost no more than 4p per minute from a BT landline but calls from mobiles are usually more. Worried about the cost? Ask an adviser to call you back.

The helpline has a translation service if you would like advice in a language other than English or Welsh.

Also in this section

The main pages in this section contain:

forms: forms used by service providers to do CLS funded work
Transforming civil legal aid: information about our reform programme that affects civil providers
Focus: our newsletter for all contracted service providers
eligibility calculator: online tool to help providers discover whether a client could receive legal aid
civil contracting: information and guidance updates to the Unified Contract and General Civil Contracts held by all providers of CLS services
Quality and performance: the way we measure quality of legal advice through schemes such as peer review
civil policy development: our strategy for the CLS, our independent research body and the directions newsletter
civil areas of work: what we are doing in family, immigration, social welfare, mental health and other civil areas of law such as community care
consultations: latest consultation papers and responses affecting the CLS
tenders: for external providers interested in supplying CLS services.

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Last updated: 06 December 2007