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In a Nutshell: Parenting information programmes

Monday, October 15, 2012

| CYP Now

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

Government to pursue controversial 'residence test' for children's legal aid

News

Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has resisted calls from MPs to backtrack on a controversial policy that will prevent asylum-seeking children from having access to legal aid.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Private fostering

Other

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Q: What is private fostering and when is a private foster carer required to notify the local authority?

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.?

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.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - New entitlement for shared parental leave

Other

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Provisions included in the Children and Families Act 2014 will give parents new rights to "shared parental leave" from December.

Legal Update: Scrutiny of private fostering

Other

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines changes to data collection on private fostering arrangements and what further work is needed to safeguard children and young people.

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

Other

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.

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.

Daily roundup: Child poverty, child protection and troubled families

Other

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.

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

Features

Monday, January 10, 2011

| CYP Now

Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?

Opinion

Monday, May 12, 2014

| CYP Now

What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.