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Legal Update: SEND - Single route of redress national trial

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

| CYP Now

April saw the start of a two-year trial of a process that gives parents and young people a single route of redress regarding SEND concerns.

Councils face EHC plan deadline

Features

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

| CYP Now

Kamena Dorling, group head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the need for local authorities to transfer children onto education, health and care plans by the end of March.

Court rules disability benefit suspension breached human rights

News

Friday, July 10, 2015

| CYP Now

The suspension of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) of a disabled child during his stay in hospital was in breach of the Human Rights Act, the Supreme Court has found.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

News

Friday, March 20, 2015

| CYP Now

A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability-related financial support

Other

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Q: I work with a 17-year-old young person who has a disability. Can she receive direct payments from her local authority for social care services?

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability discrimination at school

Other

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Q: A young person I work with wishes to make a complaint about disability discrimination in relation to an experience she had at her school. How should she go about doing this?

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - SEN statements and the Children and Families Act 2014

Other

Monday, October 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Q: I work with a parent who has a child with a Statement of Special Educational Needs. What effect does the Children and Families Act 2014 have on his existing statement?

Government climbdown on plan to scrap council crisis fund

News

Thursday, September 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is to reconsider plans to scrap a fund that helps support young people in crisis after legal action was launched to challenge the decision.

Benefit rules for children in hospital face legal challenge

News

Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's decision to suspend disability living allowance (DLA) for ill children who spend more than 84 days in hospital is to be challenged in the Supreme Court.