Sentences with phrase «aid reform provide»

Does the government's new schedule for legal aid reform provide hope or just delay?

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And IDC is backing calls for juvenile justice reform, spending more on Foundation Aid for education and provide legal assistance for immigrants.
Several items that Cuomo had tied to the budget are not currently in the spending plan, including bail reform, the Child Victims Act for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and the Dream Act to provide college aid for children of undocumented immigrants.
As Mayor Bloomberg said, â $ ˜ What we are urging you to do is provide our students with their fair share of state aid and our city with the tools and reform needed to end unnecessary mandates and crippling policy that otherwise will accelerate an already daunting situation,»» she said.
Accordingly, if reforms are not enacted, these districts would lose aid, since the bill language cited above provides no district would receive an aid increase; it does not freeze aid for all districts.»
The Indigent Care Pool (ICP) was created under the 1996 Health Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federal aid.
Passed by Congress in 1997, it provided about $ 150 million for competitive grants to aid schools in adopting «proven» whole - school reform models.
Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.
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In addition to working for a reform of multilateral and bilateral aid, Urgewald has also begun to monitor subsidies that the German Government provides for private sector projects in Southern countries.
At Batlan explains, while some of these organizations saw themselves primarily as providing legal aid, many of them performed a wide range of reform work as well as providing services to poor women.
Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said: «These reforms will ensure that we have a legal aid system which is targeted at those who need it most, in the most serious cases, as well as providing value for money to the taxpayer.»
In our latest regular column for Legal Action magazine, YLAL co-chairs Ollie and Rachel wrote about the common ground between legal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent years.
It may very well be that without radical reform of the justice system, addressing the needs of the people in gap requires providing them with actual legal services, which in turn might mean undoing a decade and a half of funding cuts to Canada's legal aid programs.
What is fundamentally different between the implementation of Woolf and Jackson is that the reforms in the Woolf era provided a cut in access for claimants through legal aid but greater privately funded access through conditional fees.
Under The Legal Profession Act, 1990, the law provides that the purpose of the Foundation is to establish and maintain a fund to be used for the purposes of legal education, legal research, legal aid, law libraries, and law reform.
The group will provide further analysis of the work of experts, and follows on from the government consultation, Legal Aid: Funding Reforms, which first mooted the idea of fixed hourly rates and fees.
The forum engages in a variety of advocacy programs aimed at making Nepal accountable for its commitments to human rights declarations, conducting research on socio - legal issues, providing legal aid and counseling to those in need, building regional, national, and international networks of women, and lobbying to reform discriminatory laws and policies.
«Mr Justice Ryder's report however, does not address the increase in relatives who, due to the legal aid reforms, will have to represent themselves in court in order to secure a residence or special guardianship order that could provide a child at risk with a safe, permanent home.
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