Crown Prosecution Service Legal Trainees 2023-03-30
2023-03-30
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Q1
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The question stems from the need for an increase in legal trainees within the Crown Prosecution Service.
What steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking to increase its number of legal trainees. The CPS has run a highly competitive and award-winning training scheme since 2012, but there is a call for more trainees.
The CPS runs an award-winning and highly competitive legal training scheme, which has seen hundreds of trainees undertake a training contract and/or pupillage across England and Wales with the CPS since 2012.
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Steps to increase number of legal trainees
Highly Competitive And Award-Winning
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This question builds on the previous one, focusing on increasing diversity among legal trainees within the Crown Prosecution Service.
I thank my hon. and learned Friend for his answer. Building on that, can he tell the House what steps he is taking to encourage people from a more diverse background to consider the law as a career? The CPS has extended its postgraduate qualification requirements to include new solicitors qualification examinations, which opens up the career to a more diverse audience.
I am very grateful indeed to my hon. Friend for raising this important issue. The CPS has extended its postgraduate qualification requirements to include new solicitors qualification examinations, which opens up the career to a more diverse audience. Madam Deputy Speaker, you will be pleased to know that for the last three years the CPS was ranked No. 1 in the Universum rankings as a highly attractive employer to law students.
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Steps specifically addressing diversity
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