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Children's rights

Scott Roberts: “It’s rewarding to help someone experience the activities that I have often taken for granted”

Best Practice 25 October 2022

How I Got Here: Scott Roberts, home support worker, Barnardo’s

Carolyne Willow: “The Bill of Rights was widely condemned as being a mean-spirited, dangerous power grab and an assault on the very integrity of human rights”

Opinion 27 September 2022

Carolyne Willow: It's time for a Children's Rights Bill

The Online Safety Bill has the potential to be an international model of good practice in the protection of children. Picture: Moodboard/Adobe Stock

Features 27 September 2022

Legal Update: The Online Safety Bill

Case widens scope for parents to raise any benefits. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

Features 26 July 2022

Legal Update: Parent power in EHCPs

Children in kinship care are less likely to experience placement disruption than those in mainstream foster care. Picture: Syda Productions/Adobe Stock

Features 21 June 2022

Legal Update: Kinship care and the Care Review

It costs £1,012 to apply for citizenship for a child in care. Picture: Maksims/Adobe Stock

Features 29 March 2022

Legal Update: Migrant looked-after children

A number of young people local to Grenfell Tower who have experienced trauma have been excluded from school. Picture: Dmitry Vereshchagin/Adobe Stock

Features 1 March 2022

Legal Update: Rights over exclusions

Information on how many applications are heard without the local authority being served is hard to come by. Picture: alfa27/Adobe Stock

Features 1 February 2022

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

At a time of funding constraints for legal aid, pressures on courts and local authorities mean that there are children and young people facing protracted periods of uncertainty. Picture: Chris Dorney/Adobe Stock

Analysis 22 December 2021

Using the law to uphold vulnerable children’s rights and entitlements

It may be in a child’s interests to apply for UK citizenship. Picture: Lena_Zajchikova/Adobe Stock

Features 22 December 2021

Legal Update: Care and immigration status

Concerns have been raised around the effectiveness of the ‘letterbox’ system of contact. Picture: Matthew Ashmore/Adobe Stock

Analysis 30 November 2021

Post-adoption contact set to go digital

Asylum-seeking children do not have a right to sponsor UK entry of family members for family reunion purposes. Picture: Pressmaster/Adobe Stock

Features 26 October 2021

Legal Update: Support for Afghan children

Adopter preparation and assessment requires, professional judgment. Wavebreakmediamicro/Adobe Stock

Features 26 October 2021

Legal Update: Preparing for the adoption assessment process

The welfare of the adopted person must be considered. Picture: PheelingsMedia/Adobe Stock

Features 28 September 2021

Legal Update: Post-commencement adoptions

Penally Training Camp in Wales was one of the large-scale accomodation centres used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Picture: Rebecca Naden/Reuters/Adobe Stock

Features 31 August 2021

Denying refugee children protection

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