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The problem I see is that there are too many course providers offering the LPC. In fact there is a scandal going on in the profession which frankly is exploitative. It starts with the course providers who charge thousands of pounds to would be solicitors knowing that they are not going to get training contracts and be saddled with the debt.
Those individuals then come into the legal market and apply for work experience or to be legal secretaries in the hope that this will get them on the ladder. Many of them doing the work experience are then expected to work for nothing “greeting clients” or “preparing bundles” or whatever. Those who want to be legal secretaries are often over qualified but not very good typists at the same time.
Those who make it to paralegal status are left doing bucket shop conveyancing or litigation or whatever being paid peanuts with a “training contract” being dangled before a certain percentage of them maybe at the end of a year or two or whenever. So they are exploited as well.
So the problem starts at the beginning and the glut of course providers who are training too many people up to be solicitors who cannot get jobs. If they were cut down and the entry requirements to courses made difficult enough (I think you always needed a good 2:1 to get into the college of law) , I for one would be all in favour of those who have LPC qualifications being called solicitors, but having to qualify to practice in specific fields, or getting credit for paralegal work or whatever – but cut down the course providers and stop asking thousands of youngsters to take out enormous loans to fund courses which will not get them a job when they would be better off financially in pursuing other careers in IT, accountancy, plumbing or whatever.