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Employers' liability for child abuse

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  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a legal principle that can hold employers liable for their employees' offences, which has been applied in a series of abuse cases

Legal Update: Antisocial behaviour law reforms

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  • Tuesday, March 5, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The Antisocial Behaviour Bill 2012 proposes extensive changes, including to the use of injunctions on children. Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the proposals

Protection for older children

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  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Older children are suffering a lack of support, according to a report by the education select committee. Kara Apland, socio-legal researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at the committee's concerns

Legal Update: Criminalising domestic abuse

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  • Tuesday, January 20, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, asks if criminalising coercive and controlling behaviour will provide better protection to victims of domestic violence.

Border Agency appeals ban on dawn raids

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  • Monday, May 16, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The government is challenging a court-imposed ban on controversial "dawn raid" removals of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that are carried out without notice, as the number of deportations has plummeted, CYP Now has learned.

Legal Update: Reform of children's home rules

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  • Tuesday, August 20, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Proposals set out by the government aim to improve safeguarding measures for vulnerable children in residential care, says Awaz Raoof, international research officer, Coram Children's Legal Centre.