About us
Plenet, the Public Legal Education Network, was established to continue building the body of knowledge of what makes for successful public legal education.
We are a network of organisations and individuals working in the field of public legal education. The range of particpants includes statutory bodies, not-for-profit organisations, legal professionals, researchers, educators and campaigners.
How to get involved
Are you doing some PLE work you would like us to showcase?
- Starting up or running a project
- Doing research
- Interested in contributing to our newsletter
- Want to volunteer with the network
- Interested in a seminar or promotional event;
Why not join the network and send us your ideas?
What does Plenet do?
Plenet provides a space for practitioners and researchers to share information and ideas, to promote good practise in delivering public education and to improve awareness of the need for and value of public legal education.
The Plenet website is being developed to showcase good practise with a combination of tools, guides, case studies and analysis of the wide range of activities that involve PLE. The project commissions and publishes articles on key PLE themes to promote debate and discussion.
More about: Public Legal Education
Many PLE projects of all types and sizes take place up and down the country but they are often isolated initiatives and don't get reported. We gather reports and contributions from the wide range of organisations doing PLE work. Through sharing our successes, and our failures, we can learn from each other's experiences and add to our common knowledge.
We are building an active network of PLE practitioners to provide mutual support, foster cooperation, and develop new initiatives. Join the network to get a regular newsletter and priority booking for events and our conference.
PLE in Europe - request for information on equalities projects
Are you providing public legal education on equalities issues in Europe ? Activities include awareness raising, outreach, education and community engagement on issues relating to discrimination and human rights.
We are keen to learn more about European projects - what they do and how they do it well. The best examples will be showcased as examples on the Is that discrimination? website under Five minute masterclass. This site will enable us to share good practice on tried and tested ways of running a successful equalities project.
This work is funded by the EU and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission under the 'Progress towards equality: Reaching out to communities' programme and supported by the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity.
More about Equality projects and PLE in Europe
February 2010
