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Legal Update: Post-commencement adoptions

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, sets out the process to access information under 2005 adoption reforms as the first children adopted “post-commencement” reach adulthood.

Legal Q&A: What is Section 67?

Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 (sometimes known as the "Dubs amendment") placed a requirement on the Home Office to "make arrangements to relocate to the United Kingdom and support a specified number of unaccompanied refugee children from other countries in Europe". The government has committed to transferring 480 children from France, Greece and Italy under section 67.

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: Family group conferences

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram outline findings from an evaluation of the use of FGCs at the pre-proceedings stage.

Legal Update: Children and Social Work Bill

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  • Tuesday, November 22, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Marianne Lagrue, project officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the government's recent defeat in the House of Lords over controversial exemption clauses in the Children and Social Work Bill.

When the Young Inspectors Call

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Lincolnshire County Council's Young Inspectors programme gives young people the chance to help shape and improve services for them and their peers. Tom de Castella went to see how it works.

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: Kinship care arrangements

Clare Seth, kinship consultant at CoramBAAF, analyses the impact that proposed government reforms following the Care Review will have for kinship carers and the children they look after.

Immigration health surcharge

    Features
  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs, examines the impact on young migrants of the increased immigration health surcharge that must be paid when making an immigration application.

EU national children in the UK

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Some EU national children living in the UK may be British but not know it, so it is important families are aware of their rights, says Anita Hurrell, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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.

The price of British citizenship

There is increasing scrutiny of the high cost of a child registering their right to British nationality, writes Anita Hurrell, head of the Migrant Children’s Project at Coram Children’s Legal Centre

Legal Update: Disabilities and school exclusions

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the impact of a landmark ruling on school exclusions for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Assessing age of asylum seekers

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at the potentially harmful consequences of children seeking asylum having their ages disputed by immigration officials.

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