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Legal Aid Agency announce contract outcomes
From http://legalaidhandbook.com -
‘The LAA have published the outcomes of the tenders for 2013 contracts on their website.
As expected, a significant number of organisations bid for multiple contracts – for example, in family Co-op Legal Services have about 80 contracts and Duncan Lewis about 30, while in housing Duncan Lewis have about 30 contracts, Shelter and Shelter Cymru about 20 each and Liverpool and Manchester CABx about 10 each. Duncan Lewis top the immigration list with about 20 contracts.
Back in January, the then LSC released an FAQ which said that there were 2500 bids for family contracts, 800 for housing and 500 for immigration. But only about 2150 family contracts, 600 housing contracts and less than 400 immigration contracts have actually been signed, an attrition rate in each case of about 20-25%. This suggests that a significant number of providers either withdrew or failed verification and therefore matter starts provisionally allocated to them in January will have been withdrawn ...’
http://legalaidhandbook.com/2013/05/01/laa-announce-contract-outcomes/