How we're reviewing quality assurance

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Quality Working Group
Aims of the review
For more information

Quality Working Group

We have been reviewing our quality assurance processes and procedures that affect legal aid practitioners. This includes peer review. The review has now been completed and a report has been published.

This review follows our agreement with The Law Society re: the Unified Contract. The Quality Working Group included representatives from:

Key areas of the review were:

Peer Review
Quality standards

The group worked together effectively and with a sense of common purpose. Collaboration through the QWG was extremely useful to explore and discuss quality assurance developments and issues. It was agreed that the objectives set for the review of the LSC quality framework were long-term aims and should be part of ongoing work between all the parties

As all parties are content with the findings and recommendations in the report the LSC and MoJ will not issue a formal response to the report.

Aims of the review

The aim of the review was to have a quality assurance framework that is:

objective and fair
integrated with other systems
avoids duplication.

For more information

The full report and minutes of group meetings can be found in the documents section of this page

Email your contributions to Jennifer Will. Please put the subject heading "Quality Working Group" in your email.

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Last updated: 20 May 2008