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Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

• The Mr X Christmas Appeal was set up to collect donations of Christmas presents and give them to under-privileged children. Six and fourteen members of staff contributed presents in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and the project management team organised the collections from people’s homes and delivered them to the official donation centres. • Include UK is a third sector organisation who provide support for offenders. A lecturer in criminology worked with the Software Development Team to develop an app to support with offender rehabilitation. The Lead Software Developer participated in a panel discussing the Include Journey UK app, during the Wales Tech Fest 4 Good 2021 run by the Wales Co- operative Centre (a not-for-profit organisation that supports people in Wales to improve their lives and livelihoods). • A lecturer in criminology (Cyber Threats strand) i s involved in a ‘ Mock Interview’ programme which has been delivered within all secondary schools in South Central Wales for around 20 years. It helps pupils to understand the recruitment process and prepare them for interviews in the future. • The LILW submitted a proposal, in collaboration with Discovery (the University’s affiliated volunteering charity), to the Morgan Advanced Studies Institute . The proposal was for a 3- day event to explore the issues around barriers to disable people and their parents/carers to accessing and exercising their legal rights. • The Director of the Law Clinic volunteers for the Ukraine Advice Project UK. This group of volunteer legal professionals with immigration and asylum expertise, are providing a free service to connect people fleeing Ukraine with free legal advice on UK immigration, visas and asylum from qualified and regulated lawyers. • Since November 2019, Swansea Law Clinic has been running a Drop-in advice service on Wednesday afternoons. Anyone was able to come along, without an appointment, to any of the Housing, Employment, General or Family clinics. The Clinic worked with solicitors and paralegals from eight different local solicitors’ practices, who would use one of the Clinic’s appointment booths, along with a student volunteer who would shadow the appointment and take the case note. Together, they would then be able to offer 30-minute advice sessions to anyone who walked in requiring advice. • Swansea Law Clinic participated in the last two Law Clinics’ Gl obal Day of Action for Climate Justice , held in November each year. Law Clinics around the world use the day to highlight a certain topic/issue in relation to climate justice.

Source: SQW analysis of Progress Reports, CCT case studies, and consultation evidence

Reflections

3.5 Consultee feedback provides additional commentary on delivery against the CCTs. Overall, feedback reinforces the evidence above suggesting that the operation has delivered strongly against the case-level indicators, and in contributing to the CCTs more broadly. In particular, several factors were seen to have supported the successful delivery against the CCTs: • First, the CCTs were integrated into the day-to-day delivery of the operation from the outset, and both project management staff and researchers / academics engaged in and valued the activities. This was supported by the early appointment of a CCT champion

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