PLE Module Guides and Materials for Advice Centres

The recent Low Commission report recommends that advice services should broaden the spectrum of their work to include preventive and enabling approaches including public legal education. Our discussions with individual agencies have shown support for this recommendation and we are receiving an increasing number of requests from agencies for help in doing this work.

In response to this, with the support of the London Legal Support Trust (LLST) we are turning a selection of our public legal education modules from our ‘Law in everyday life’ series into comprehensive learning resources with lesson plans, tutors’ notes and guidance for use by London advice agencies. We aim to develop five or six modules addressing the emerging social welfare law priorities targeted at advice agencies' need to reduce avoidable demand.

Our experience of working with advice agencies has shown that most lack the resources and expertise to undertake PLE effectively themselves. They need support in setting clear learning objectives and in using appropriate education techniques to deliver required outcomes.

This project focuses on the development of social welfare law curricula that can be used widely and adapted to deliver public legal education courses with the aim of reducing avoidable demand for one-to-one advice. It will identify the type of support that agencies need, and produce learning resource packs that can be made freely available to advice centres.

If you, or your agency would like to receive the first publications of our modules please contact: info@lawforlife.org.uk.