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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| CYP Now

With Homes for Ukraine and other schemes to support Ukrainians having been running for a year, Alison East, senior solicitor at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses their successes.

Legal Update: Family group conferences

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| CYP Now

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram outline findings from an evaluation of the use of FGCs at the pre-proceedings stage.

ChildRIGHT: Interview - Get it right from the start

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| CYP Now

Frank Field MP, chair of the independent review on poverty and life chances, and author of The Foundation Years: Preventing Poor Children from Becoming Poor Adults.

Legal Update: Protecting young social networkers

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

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.

New restraint system criticised by children's rights campaigners

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Campaign groups have criticised a new system of restraint being adopted in youth custody settings because it continues to allow techniques that involve inflicting pain on young people.

Young people demand sound recording cameras in youth custody settings

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

| CYP Now

Youth custody settings and police stations should contain cameras that record sound to prevent young offenders being subjected to violence, a report has claimed.

Government to pursue controversial 'residence test' for children's legal aid

Friday, September 5, 2014

| CYP Now

The government has resisted calls from MPs to backtrack on a controversial policy that will prevent asylum-seeking children from having access to legal aid.

Legal Update: Ending age-disputed detention

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.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Private fostering

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Q: What is private fostering and when is a private foster carer required to notify the local authority?

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - New court order to combat FGM

Monday, August 3, 2015

| CYP Now

This month, a new provision came into effect, which provides for the imposition of Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders.

Ombudsman orders audit over SEND failings

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Cases raise concerns of ‘systemic failure’ by council and children’s services provider, writes Richard Oldershaw of the Child Law Advice Service.

Separation under interim care orders

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Case highlights need to balance welfare considerations, says Rosalyn Akar Grams, head of legal practice at Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Care leavers who go on to attend university

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

| CYP Now

Frances Trevena examines the situation for care leavers who go on to attend university and the impact of changes to provisions for care.

Legal Update: Kinship care arrangements

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Clare Seth, kinship consultant at CoramBAAF, analyses the impact that proposed government reforms following the Care Review will have for kinship carers and the children they look after.

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

| CYP Now

A landmark legal judgment has branded current housing benefit rules discriminatory against disabled children.?

Proposed child maintenance levy cut by government

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has reduced the amount it will charge lone parents for using the Child Maintenance Service to secure support payments following widespread opposition to the proposals.

Joint working model cuts safeguarding case delays

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

| CYP Now

Multi-agency safeguarding hubs (Mash) in London have nearly halved the amount of time it takes to deal with child protection referrals, according to new research.

Call for talks as Social Value Act shakes up commissioning

Thursday, January 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Central government must urgently consult local authorities on how new "social value" laws could impact on children's services, it has been has warned.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Increase in the use of McKenzie friends

Monday, June 23, 2014

| CYP Now

An increase of litigants in person in family court proceedings has led to a rise in the use of McKenzie friends to support these litigants.

Legal Update: Resolution on transgender rights

Monday, May 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines how a Council of Europe resolution relates to the rights of transgender young people to change their legal gender.

Legal Update: Kinship care and the Care Review

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

| CYP Now

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how proposals in the Care Review to encourage more children to be placed in kinship care arrangements could have unintended consequences.

Legal Update: Scrutiny of private fostering

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

| CYP Now

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines changes to data collection on private fostering arrangements and what further work is needed to safeguard children and young people.

ChildRIGHT: Higher education -- Tuition fees and the right to higher education