Breaking Barriers
Provides education, employment, and skills-building support to refugees.
Visit breaking-barriers.co.ukWho is eligible?
Breaking Barriers sets its own eligibility criteria and reviews them each intake. Check the scheme's own site for the current requirements before you apply — the summary here is a signpost, not the scheme's official guidance.
How to apply
Applications are made to Breaking Barriers directly, not through FQPS Academy. Follow the link below for the current application route, supporting documents and deadlines.
Where Breaking Barriers fits into qualifying as a solicitor
Access schemes like this one remove a barrier — funding, a placement, a mentor — but they do not replace the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. You will still need to pass SQE1 and SQE2 and complete two years of qualifying work experience. FQPS Academy exists to keep that second half affordable.
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