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Legal Update: Poverty as immigration control

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  • Monday, June 22, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the situation of vulnerable families with "no recourse to public funds", due to their immigration status.

Legal Update: Ending age-disputed detention

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  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre's Migrant Children's Project, examines the findings of a recent inquiry on immigration detention.

Review: Glasgow Girls

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  • Monday, July 21, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Written by Joe Barton and Brian Welsh - Produced by Kate Cook - Directed by Brian Welsh - BBC Three

Seeking a new life

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  • Tuesday, June 24, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Each year, hundreds of young asylum seekers enter the UK in search of help and protection. Louise Hunt went to visit the Kent Refugee Action Network, one of the projects attempting to support these vulnerable children and young people to make a new life in a strange land.

Legal Update: Care of unaccompanied children

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  • Monday, April 14, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Draft proposals on the care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and trafficked children are a welcome step but could go further, argues Rachel Hutchings, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Vulnerable, alone and in need of our protection

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  • Tuesday, February 18, 2014
  • | CYP Now
We are all aware of how difficult it is to navigate the systems of another country - you only have to go on holiday and lose your purse to know this. Even getting to the nearest police station and reporting the loss can be difficult, never mind finding an overall solution to the problem. Can you imagine then how an 11-year-old child arriving into the UK alone might feel? Or how a 17-year-old feels when they have no "official papers"? What if English isn't your first language and you don't understand what you are being asked at all?

Legal Update: Undocumented children lose out

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  • Wednesday, November 13, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The government's policy of creating a "hostile environment" for migrants is having a damaging impact on children, argues Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Legal Update: Immigration Bill threatens rights

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  • Tuesday, October 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The government's Immigration Bill currently before parliament has serious implications for children's rights, says Anita Hurrell, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre.