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Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe

CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James Bury on how the vital role of health professionals for care safeguarding was explored at this year’s CoramBAAF Health Conference.

Legal Update: The Online Safety Bill

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
  • | CYP Now
With the delay of the Online Safety Bill, the UK should not abandon its obligations to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse, says Awaz Raoof, head of law and programmes at Coram International.

How to improve care, by those who have lived it

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  • | CYP Now
Those who have been in care are uniquely placed to identify how well services for looked-after children are working. Here five care leavers share their experiences and set out what needs to change.

ADCS president speaks out in favour of 'exemption clause'

    News
  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Government plans to allow councils to apply for exemptions from children's social care legislation will help councils to better support young people, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services has said.

Eileen Munro 'deserts' controversial exemption clause

    News
  • Friday, February 10, 2017
  • | CYP Now
A social work academic cited as one of the inspirations for controversial government plans to allow councils to apply for exemptions from children's social care legislation has spoken out against the proposals, describing them as potentially dangerous.

Fewer families forcibly removed from UK

    News
  • Tuesday, January 24, 2017
  • | CYP Now
The number of families being forcibly removed from the UK is on the decline, with more choosing to return voluntarily since a family returns system was introduced in 2011.

Youth custody 'unsafe' for half of boys

    News
  • Tuesday, November 15, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Almost half of all boys held in young offender institutions (YOIs) feel "unsafe" in custody, the highest level recorded since the Prisons Inspectorate began recording views in 2001, a study has found.

Legal Update: Covert recordings as evidence

    Other
  • Tuesday, June 21, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Kelly Reeve, senior legal consultant and team leader for the Child Law Advice Service, considers the implications of cases concerning the use of covert recordings as evidence in family law proceedings.

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