Does the government's new schedule for legal
aid reform provide hope or just delay?
Not exact matches
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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provides in - depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, health
reform, global health, HIV /
AIDS, health insurance, the uninsured and much more.