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Legal Update: Support for special guardians

    Other
  • Monday, April 27, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Coram Children's Legal Centre's Child Law Advice Service (CLAS) is receiving an increasing number of queries about special guardianship. Kelly Reeve, team leader of CLAS, examines this trend.

Legal Update: Review of special guardianship

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  • Monday, September 14, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a government consultation that will review the use of special guardianship, first introduced in 2005.

Family court improvement forum

Louise Sims, kinship care and fostering consultant at CoramBAAF, discusses the benefits of Quality Circle, an innovative forum to identify good practice developed by the Sussex Family Justice Board.

Inspecting Cafcass

Cafcass represents the interests of children subject to care proceedings in the family courts and is the largest employer of social workers in England, making high standards of practice vital.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

    News
  • Friday, January 15, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Support for special guardians

    Features
  • Monday, September 23, 2019
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at calls for changes to special guardianship orders to ensure that carers are adequately prepared and supported.