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Parenting support programmes significantly cut the risk of children developing behavioural problems and becoming offenders in adolescence and adulthood, a new study suggests.

Daily roundup: Child poverty, child protection and troubled families

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Monday, December 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Child poverty at lowest level for a generation, study finds; five-year-old taken into care for being overweight; and "turned around" troubled families in Sunderland don't get jobs, all in the news today.

Proposed child maintenance levy cut by government

News

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has reduced the amount it will charge lone parents for using the Child Maintenance Service to secure support payments following widespread opposition to the proposals.

Justice system must ensure wellbeing of prisoners' children, say campaigners

News

Monday, June 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's welfare should be considered at every stage of the criminal justice system when their parents are facing detention or imprisonment, a group of charities is urging.

Legal Update: Asylum seekers face benefit gap

Other

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

| CYP Now

With an estimated 10,000 asylum-seeking children living far below the poverty line, Chris Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines concerns over support offered to families

In a Nutshell: Parenting information programmes

Other

Monday, October 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Parenting information programmes provide advice to parents about how to help their children through the separation process

Home Office study reveals public support for less punitive stance on youth crime

News

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

| CYP Now

Members of the public do not want to see under-18s criminalised for low-level crime, despite being concerned about a "lack of discipline" among young people.

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.?

Immigration rules leave thousands of children destitute, Oxford University finds

News

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

| CYP Now

Thousands of children living in the UK without legal immigration status are at risk of destitution and exploitation because of contradictory rules and regulations, a report by the University of Oxford has claimed.

Families hit by benefit caps could spark ‘tidal wave of migration'

Other

Monday, May 14, 2012

| CYP Now

The effects of the government's cap on benefits are beginning to be felt by families across the capital, as local authorities try to tackle the gulf between reduced local housing allowance rates and London rents

Safeguarding measures to shield children against bailiff action

News

Friday, February 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Safeguards to protect children from "intrusive and stressful" bailiffs are to be introduced by the government.

'Shared parenting' gets rejected

Analysis

Monday, January 9, 2012

| CYP Now

The Family Justice Review has denied the presumption of shared parenting. Kirsten Anderson, Carolyn Hamilton and Jo-Anne Prudhomme from the Coram Children's Legal Centre examine why

Cameron calls for action to tackle gang culture

News

Thursday, August 11, 2011

| CYP Now

Prime Minister David Cameron has called for action against those involved in gangs and greater discipline in schools in the wake of riots throughout England.

ChildRIGHT Ask the Expert: Smacking children

Other

Friday, February 25, 2011

| CYP Now

Is it illegal for a parent or carer to smack their child?

ChildRIGHT Interview: Matt Buttery, chief executive, Family Matters Institute

Features

Monday, January 10, 2011

| CYP Now

ChildRIGHT: In a Nutshell -- Contact with a child after parents split up

Other

Monday, November 8, 2010

| CYP Now

How it is determined with which parent a child will live after a relationship has broken down and how much contact the non-resident parent is allowed.

ChildRIGHT: Legal Aid -- Changes to legal aid threaten family law

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Friday, October 8, 2010

| CYP Now

Holly Rogalski, legal research and information officer at the Children's Legal Centre, considers how LSC changes to legal aid will affect families.

ChildRIGHT: In a Nutshell -- The impact of the Equality Act 2010

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Friday, July 9, 2010

| CYP Now

The Equality Act 2010 consolidates a range of existing discrimination laws, including those affecting children, young people and families.

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Legal Update: Court Report - Mother fakes child's death to stop contact

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Domestic violence

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Parenting support cuts child conduct disorder

Daily roundup: Child poverty, child protection and troubled families

Proposed child maintenance levy cut by government

Justice system must ensure wellbeing of prisoners' children, say campaigners

Legal Update: Asylum seekers face benefit gap

In a Nutshell: Parenting information programmes

Home Office study reveals public support for less punitive stance on youth crime

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

Immigration rules leave thousands of children destitute, Oxford University finds

Families hit by benefit caps could spark ‘tidal wave of migration'

Safeguarding measures to shield children against bailiff action

'Shared parenting' gets rejected

Cameron calls for action to tackle gang culture

ChildRIGHT Ask the Expert: Smacking children

ChildRIGHT Interview: Matt Buttery, chief executive, Family Matters Institute

ChildRIGHT: In a Nutshell -- Contact with a child after parents split up

ChildRIGHT: Legal Aid -- Changes to legal aid threaten family law

ChildRIGHT: In a Nutshell -- The impact of the Equality Act 2010

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