Developing capable citizens conference - Cardiff November 2008

During National Pro Bono week, on 13th November, Plenet organised a joint event with the Civil Justice Council in Cardiff. The event was attended by Lord Bach, Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, and offered an opportunity for Plenet members to show-case PLE delivery models.

The event brought together practitioners and policy-makers to develop a better understanding of the notion of legal capability, discuss the development of citizenship education and to introduce the research and evaluation work currently in progress at Plenet.

The event was extremely successful, offering an opportunity to focus on how the experience of Welsh and English practitioners could be harnessed to improve delivery. It illustrated the impact that PLE could have on the work of organisations delivering related services such as advice, pro bono assistance and citizenship education in schools. The conference also focused on the needs of adult learners and the expertise of continuing learning practitioners with a view to accessing the National Adult Literacy Curriculum.

Read the conference minutes, presentations and papers below...

• Minutes
  Minutes of Developing Capable Citizens Conference (101 KB)

• Presentation by Martin Jones, Plenet
  Developing Capable Citizens (3.0 MB)

• Presentation by Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS)
  Measuring Young People’s Legal Capability (2.7 MB)

• Paper by Howard Gannaway from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)
  Dimensions of Public Legal Education: What would a legally capable person look like? (148 KB)

• Paper by John Seargeant, Plenet
  PLE and Civil Justice: the development of evaluation tools and guidance (91 KB)

• Research Annexe to the PLEAS Task Force Report by Alexy Buck, Pascoe Pleasence & Nigel J Balmer from the Legal Services Research Centre
  Education Implications from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey (250 KB)

January 2009