Crisis charity facing funding cut

7:00pm Wednesday 16th January 2013 in News By Wendy Brading

A CHARITY which provides a helping hand to thousands of people each year needs a bit of help itself.


Colchester’s Citizen Advice Bureau dealt with inquiries from 8,500 clients last year.


But from April, it faces loses funding for a key weapon in its armoury.


The Legal Services Commission currently gives the bureau £80,000 a year to deal with complex legal matters.


But in a matter of weeks, that funding is set to be decimated.

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GreensteadResident says...
7:23pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Is this what Sir Bob Russell's new best friend (aka David Cameron) meant by the Big Society?

As usual please note I think politicians of all parties (Tories, LibDems, Labour, UKIP, BNP, Greens etc ) are all the same a bucnch of in-it-for -themselves waste of space.

The Citizens Advice Bureau should and must be properly funded - it's the only place that many people can get legal advice these days.

If we can afford to send billions in foreign aid - we surely can afford to fund our legal aid centers.

Also if we can bail out the banks with billions we can also bail out our CABs.

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Im_Like_HELLO says...
7:41pm Wed 16 Jan 13

As in so many cases, it is rather like a tube of toothpaste with the cap on when you squeeze one end: the toothpaste moves up to the other end - squeezing funding at one point just leads to increased demand somewhere else.

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Hamiltonandy says...
8:49pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Apart from CAB, Age Concern is facing cuts. But do you hear any protests from councillors? They are only concerned with the increase in their "allowances" and propping up failed projects such as the "cultural quarter".

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Hamiltonandy says...
8:49pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Apart from CAB, Age Concern is facing cuts. But do you hear any protests from councillors? They are only concerned with the increase in their "allowances" and propping up failed projects such as the "cultural quarter".

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Boris says...
10:07pm Wed 16 Jan 13

The CAB could help itself by asking its clients for donations towards costs. A few days ago we heard about them helping formerly rich people who fall on hard times. Many of the CAB's clients have no spare cash at all; but many others could afford to give £10 or £20 or £50. This government, slashing the budget for justice, is intent on denying justice to anyone who can't afford it, so it is up to CAB clients to help keep the service going.

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GreensteadResident says...
7:27am Thu 17 Jan 13

On points legal -

Anyone know the name of the firm of lawyers who got the deal for the residents of Joyce Brooks Brooks House?

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Boris says...
2:32pm Thu 17 Jan 13

GreensteadResident wrote:
On points legal -

Anyone know the name of the firm of lawyers who got the deal for the residents of Joyce Brooks Brooks House?
Yvonne Hossack. Unfortunately she has since ceased working as a solicitor due to ongoing problems with the body which provides legal aid. Google her and you will see.

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rhetoric says...
2:33pm Thu 17 Jan 13

When the Gazette says "decimated" does it mean cut by one-tenth, or cut to one-tenth its current funding?
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The word decimated is currently misused both on televisiion and in the press.

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GreensteadResident says...
3:48pm Thu 17 Jan 13

Boris wrote:
GreensteadResident wrote:
On points legal -

Anyone know the name of the firm of lawyers who got the deal for the residents of Joyce Brooks Brooks House?
Yvonne Hossack. Unfortunately she has since ceased working as a solicitor due to ongoing problems with the body which provides legal aid. Google her and you will see.
Many thanks Boris for the name of the solicitor.

Shame about how she has been treated. She really seems like a good lawyer and a decent person.

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