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Legal Update: Legal aid changes and family law

Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the impact that changes to civil legal aid are having on access to justice in private family law matters.

Integrated care service vital to help support troubled families

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  • Monday, August 4, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Integrated care is an idea with legs. It is gaining currency among the major political parties, as they realise that the segregation of health and social care, for example, leads to waste, duplication and gaps through which service users easily fall.

Ofsted to inspect councils on child sexual exploitation

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  • Friday, September 12, 2014
  • | CYP Now
A group of local authorities will face Ofsted inspections on the way they deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) in a bid to ensure services are up to scratch in the wake of the Rotherham scandal, CYP Now can reveal.

Legal Update: Asylum seekers face benefit gap

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  • 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

ADCS launches inquiry into the care system

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  • Wednesday, October 24, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Directors of children's services have launched an inquiry into the purpose of the care system, as part of plans to radically improve provision for looked-after children across the country.