Can't find what you're looking for?

On this page:

How information on this website is organised
How do I know when this website has been updated?
How to search this website
Using the sitemap
Using the document archive
What to do if you still can’t find what you are looking for

How information on this website is organised

The LSC’s website is divided into four sections:

About us: information about the LSC as an organisation, including our regional network, history, vacancies and newsroom.
About legal aid: information on how the system works, how to get legal aid and how to work in it.
CLS: how we are running the civil legal aid scheme, containing some resources specifically for service providers such as forms, contracts, legislation and guidance.
CDS: how we are running the criminal legal aid scheme, containing some resources specifically for service providers such as forms, contracts, legislation and guidance.

How do I know when this website has been updated?

We usually notify people about key updates to our website on one of the following three pages:

What’s New: contains our corporate announcements, including policy reforms and new consultation announcements
CLS News & Updates: contains news and updates for service providers working within the Community Legal Service (CLS)
CDS News & Updates: contains news and updates for service providers working within the Community Legal Service (CDS).

By checking these pages regularly, you can ensure you are seeing our latest information.

If you are a provider, you should receive an LSC Update email once a fortnight from us. This will direct you to any recently added news and updates.

You can also use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to subscribe to pages of interest and quickly check for any updates.

How to search this website

Our search engine will bring back a list of pages and documents around a specific topic. For example, a search for 'unified contract' brings up the following documents on the site:

Original consultation
key pages from the Unified Contract section
Unified Contract documentation.

Using the sitemap

Our sitemap lists every page on this website.

The sitemap is useful when used with your web browser’s search tool.

If you press Control+F in Internet Explorer and search for ‘preferred supplier’, this will take you to the link to the Preferred Supplier page.

Using the document archive

The document archive contains documents that have been superseded but we have retained on our website in case people may find them useful.

Please note the archive contains selected documents, and is not meant to be a comprehensive index of every document published by the LSC.

These include closed consultation papers, back issues of our Focus newsletter, or corporate publications from previous years.

The archive is divided into the following sections:

News and Publications
Consultations
Community Legal Service
Criminal Defence Service
About the Commission
Statutory material
Quality Mark
Regional information
Legal Aid Board Archive

What to do if you still can't find what you are looking for

If, after trying the above methods, you still can't find what you are looking for, please contact us. Your enquiry will be passed to the relevant department.

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Last updated: 16 January 2009