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Legal Update: Review of Ukraine schemes

With Homes for Ukraine and other schemes to support Ukrainians having been running for a year, Alison East, senior solicitor at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses their successes.

Legal Update: Legal aid changes

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  • Tuesday, February 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Richard Oldershaw, senior legal consultant at Coram Children's Legal Centre's Child Law Advice Service, looks at the impact of changes to legal aid arrangements on children's access to justice.

Legal Update: Mental health detention

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  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Lauren Morling and Sihana Bina of Coram International set out requirements when detaining children for mental health reasons and what changes are needed to respect young people's rights.

Legal Update: Guide to supervision orders

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  • Tuesday, November 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
James Bury, head of policy, research and development at CoramBAAF, outlines the implications of the Public Law Working Group’s new draft best practice recommendations on supervision orders.

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how the charity is working with local authorities and judges to improve understanding of care orders so the right one is used.

Making towns child friendly

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The way spaces are designed can have a huge impact on the wellbeing and life chances of children and young people. Charlotte Goddard speaks to those leading the way in child-friendly town planning.

Legal Update: The Online Safety Bill

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
With the delay of the Online Safety Bill, the UK should not abandon its obligations to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse, says Awaz Raoof, head of law and programmes at Coram International.

Legal Update: Parent power in EHCPs

An important decision from the Upper Tribunal has upheld a holistic interpretation of section 9 of the Education Act 1996, the general principle that children will be educated in accordance with their parents’ wishes, with a duty on the local authority to specify the parent’s preferred school in a child’s education, health and care plan (EHCP) if it is considered suitable for their needs, offers “efficient” education and avoids unreasonable public expenditure.

Legal Update: Kinship care and the Care Review

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how proposals in the Care Review to encourage more children to be placed in kinship care arrangements could have unintended consequences.

Legal Update: Migrant looked-after children

With one in 10 children in care being non-British, local authorities need to do more to identify and address their needs, says Marianne Lagrue, policy manager at Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

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