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'Free' early education entitlement

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram, examines the expansion of the funded early education entitlement to include children in families who have no recourse to public funds.

Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line

    News
  • Tuesday, April 10, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Asylum support levels for children and families have left around 10,000 children in severe poverty, because payments fall "alarmingly below" mainstream benefit levels, a report by The Children's Society has found.

Failure to protect migrant children

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 7, 2012
  • | CYP Now
The UK Border Agency continues to prioritise immigration control over the rights of children, says Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre

Age-disputed children continue to be detained

    News
  • Tuesday, July 30, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Children are continuing to be held at Yarl's Wood and other adult immigration detention centres more than two years after the coalition government announced detention of under-18s would stop, latest statistics have shown.