Private sector threat to Hull CAB

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 16 April 2008

Hull Citizens Advice Bureau is lobbying the city council in a last-ditch bid to prevent it from commissioning a rival community legal advice centre that could result in the charity's closure.

Hull City Council and the Legal Services Commission have almost completed joint plans to commission the new centre. The CAB has been told it has been unsuccessful in its bid to land the contract, which is expected to go instead to private company A4e. If the plan goes ahead, the...

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