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About users of East Hackney LAW

Although established as Kingsmead Advice Service to serve the Kingsmead Estate, with advertising and promotion work restricted to Kingsmead estate the number of users from outside the estate has increased each year.

In 2000/01 72% of clients were from E9 post-code district of which 95% were from Kingsmead estate.

In 2001/02, 65% of users were from the E9 post-code district of which 72% of users were from Kingsmead estate.

Approximately 35% of clients using the service in 2001/2002 live in2 neighbouring estates and communities in the surrounding Wick and Chatham wards.

9.6% of people using the Kingsmead Advice Service in 2001/02 lived outside London Borough of Hackney.

Tenants from Gascoyne estate (in Wick ward) and an employee of Sanctuary Housing have contacted and visited Kingsmead Advice Service and are keen to establish an outpost on Gascoyne estate.

Core Arts and Leonard Cheshire Hackney have also expressed a keen interest in establishing a surgery and office within their offices in Homerton, working with users and the Hackney Marsh Partnership Projects Director to develop a proposal.

Sources:

1. NACRO report Kingsmead Estate - 1996 page 15;
2. London Borough of Hackney; 2001;
3. 'Community Action Against Poverty: A Poverty Profile of Kingsmead Estate' Researched by Hertfordshire University July 1997;
4. Dept of Social Security 100% Scan (March 2001);
5. Sure Start proposal bid (April 2002)
6. An independent audit of Hackney Wick SRB - report by Westminster University (March 2002)
7. Metropolitan Police Kingsmead Estate Recorded Crime (May 1998);
8. Department of Education, Training and Employment (Nov 1999);
9. The London Borough of Hackney A Socio-economic & Demographic Comparison: Kingsmead Estate Compared with Hackney and Inner London (November 1997);
10. Department of Environment Transport and Regions 1998 Index of local deprivation: Regeneration Summary No 15;
11. The Hackney Community Legal Service Partnership First Draft of "A Strategic Plan for Advice Services in Hackney" @ page 7
12. ibid @ Appendix A.
13. CACI Ltd Acorn GIS Scan 2002
14. London Regional Legal Services Committee (LRLSC) review of legal and advice service (July 2000)

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