Cardiff conference - November 2008

Developing Capable Citizens: Civil Justice and PLE

During National Pro Bono week, November 12th, 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 of conference - Cardiff conference Nov 13th 2008 Developing Capable Citizens - Minutes (101 KB)

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

Plenet, Martin Jones - Developing Capable Citizens (3.0 MB)

NIACE, Howard Gannaway - Dimensions of Public Legal Education: what would a legally capable person look like? (148 KB)

Alexy Buck, Pascoe Pleasence & Nigel J Balmer - Annexe to the PLEAS Task Force Report, "Education Implications from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey" (250 KB)