# Early Legal Advice Pilot Evaluation

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Ministry of Justice](/buyers/ministry-of-justice/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [National Centre for Social Research](/contract-winners/national-centre-for-social-research/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £1,235,300
- Tender value: £1,235,300
- Award date: 21 February 2022
- Published: 27 April 2022
- Contract start: 31 March 2022
- Contract end: 30 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 151aa1d3-ef2c-49de-bbcd-f96690967d6a-532455
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-679af940-466a-45a5-a41d-c3e745edbe7a

## Description

The pilot seeks to test whether providing early legal advice on debt, housing and welfare benefits could promote the early resolution of housing problems, preventing escalation into more serious issues such as eviction, possession or homelessness\. Consequently, this should reduce the cost of significant areas of spend across the wider government\. To test the implementation, impacts and economic case for wider adoption, the pilot will run across two sites and be subject to a robustly conducted evaluation across both sites\. This will provide us with a thorough, detailed business case to make further evidence-based decisions on this policy area, including the potential benefits of investments to have better outcomes in a number of different government policies\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/151aa1d3-ef2c-49de-bbcd-f96690967d6a-532455)