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Legal Update: Court Report - Age assessments for asylum seekers

Other

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Magistrates' Association backs decision to release 12-year-old sex offender

News

Friday, January 4, 2013

| CYP Now

A decision to discharge a 12-year-old boy with an IQ of 58 who admitted 22 crimes including sexual assault has been supported by the Magistrates' Association.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Female genital mutilation and care proceedings

Other

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Family judge holds that FGM could meet the "significant harm" and unreasonable parenting tests to initiate care proceedings.

Legal Update: Queen's Speech - What's in it for children?

Other

Monday, June 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Kamena Dorling, Policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the new government's proposed policy and legislative agenda for children and young people.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Vulnerable young people in B&Bs

Other

Monday, August 31, 2015

| CYP Now

The Local Government Ombudsman has reiterated that B&B accommodation is not suitable to house homeless young people.

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.

ChildRIGHT: In a nutshell -- Guidance renews fight against practice of FGM

Other

Monday, October 31, 2011

| CYP Now

The Crown Prosecution Service has issued fresh guidance for prosecutors concerning the cultural practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)

U-turn on regulation of independent social work providers

News

Friday, September 20, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has backed down on plans not to regulate independent sector providers of local authority children's social services in England.

Ofsted unveils inspection framework for children's services

News

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted is to push ahead with the introduction of a tougher inspection regime for children's services, ignoring warnings from the sector that the system is too simplistic and will fail to deliver improvements.

Daily roundup: homelessness, child abuse, and healthy eating

Other

Monday, November 4, 2013

| CYP Now

Long-term B&B use reaches decade-high; ex-DPP says professionals who fail to report child abuse should be prosecuted; and families cut back on healthy food due to cash shortage, all in the news today.

New figures show smaller rise in adoptions

News

Thursday, November 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The rise in the number of children adopted last year was not as high as previously thought, new data analysis suggests.

Legal Update: Protecting young social networkers

Other

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Coram Children's Legal Centre's Awaz Raoof and Julie Latrille report on the findings of a study conducted by the NSPCC on the experiences of 11- and 12-year-olds on social networking sites.

Daily roundup: Fuel poverty, sexual offences, and the benefit cap

Other

Monday, January 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Families planning to cut down on food to cover heating costs; 20 per cent rise in sexual offences against children; and 33,000 now affected by government benefit cap, all in the news today.