A missed opportunity to make health, education and social support savings through investment in early justice interventions

In the UK, around 14 million people live in poverty and can’t afford access to justice and two-thirds of the population do not know how to get legal advice.
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\nResearch is clear that legal issues intersect with health, housing, employment, discrimination and income, and that problems compound if unresolved. This is heightened for people experiencing mental health issues, disability and domestic abuse.
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\nThe research also that tells us that the disadvantaged who are suffering most, are also more likely to have not only one legal problem, but between five and eleven. In the next three years, I will be documenting and benchmarking good practice to focus on what works rather than what does not, and to find out what leads to improvements in people’s lives.
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\nThis article posits some ways forward based my my evidence based research and Parliamentary submission to the UK Parliament in 2022.