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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.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Direct payments

Other

Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Q: What are "direct payments"?

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

News

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A panel of criminal justice and mental health experts has called for greater scrutiny into how liaison and diversion services for young people are being implemented across England.

Daily roundup: Child protection, mental health and early years

Other

Monday, May 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Academics criticise government plans to outsource children's social care; NHS England raises concerns over failure to meet child mental health needs; and nursery to investigate after toddler found wandering streets, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Out-of-work benefits, school preparedness, and legal system

Other

Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

New sanctions introduced for long-term unemployed; schoolchildren still wearing nappies study finds; and children to give evidence away from court through pilot study, all in the news today.

Birmingham criticised for failing to meet autistic boy's needs

News

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council has been rebuked by the Local Government Ombudsman for failing to provide support to the mother of an autistic boy whose violent behaviour was deemed to be of "considerable risk" to others.

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

News

Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

Challenge to SEN legal barriers

Other

Monday, June 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Children with special educational needs face limitations in accessing justice, but this could soon be addressed by proposed changes to education law, says Tom Farrell, education law adviser at Coram Children's Legal Centre

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

News

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

| CYP Now

A landmark legal judgment has branded current housing benefit rules discriminatory against disabled children.?

SEN legislation ‘built on quicksand'

News

Thursday, May 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Campaigners for disabled children have warned ministers that legislation aimed at simplifying processes for children with special educational needs (SEN) will falter because of widespread reductions in specialist support services.

Families and Children Bill to reform SEN and adoption systems

News

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

| CYP Now

The Queen has outlined the details of a new Families and Children Bill in her first speech to parliament since the coalition was formed in 2010.

Young people with autism 'need legal right to educational support'

News

Friday, October 14, 2011

| CYP Now

Young disabled people must be given the legal right to educational support up to the age of 25 if they are to achieve independence later in life, a charity has warned.

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Legal Update: SEND - Single route of redress national trial

Councils face EHC plan deadline

Court rules disability benefit suspension breached human rights

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

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

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

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

Government climbdown on plan to scrap council crisis fund

Benefit rules for children in hospital face legal challenge

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Direct payments

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

Daily roundup: Child protection, mental health and early years

Daily roundup: Out-of-work benefits, school preparedness, and legal system

Birmingham criticised for failing to meet autistic boy's needs

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

Challenge to SEN legal barriers

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

SEN legislation ‘built on quicksand'

Families and Children Bill to reform SEN and adoption systems

Young people with autism 'need legal right to educational support'

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