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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.

Legal Update: Guide to supervision orders

Features

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

| CYP Now

James Bury, head of policy, research and development at CoramBAAF, outlines the implications of the Public Law Working Group’s new draft best practice recommendations on supervision orders.

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| CYP Now

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how the charity is working with local authorities and judges to improve understanding of care orders so the right one is used.

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

Features

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

Leonie Jordan, associate legal consultant at CoramBAAF, highlights some of the complex issues and potential instabilities surrounding the process for discharging special guardianship orders.

Separation under interim care orders

Other

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.

Support for special guardians

Features

Monday, September 23, 2019

| CYP Now

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at calls for changes to special guardianship orders to ensure that carers are adequately prepared and supported.

Legal Update: Cultural matching in foster care

Features

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

| CYP Now

Reports of a child being placed with "inappropriate" foster carers spark fears that placement options for children could be more limited.

Legal Update: Special guardianship orders

Features

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

| CYP Now

Serious case review highlights need for rigorous assessments when placing a child with a special guardian, writes Kamena Dorling, head of policy & programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Legal Update: Family courts and contact where there has been domestic violence

Features

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

| CYP Now

Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram's Children's Legal Centre, examines calls by charities for reforms to the way family courts deal with contact cases involving domestic violence.

Legal Update: Children seeking asylum in the UK

Features

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

| CYP Now

Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explains the legal mechanisms for unaccompanied children coming to the UK from Calais and across Europe.

Legal Update: IVF and legal parenthood

Other

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Kelly Reeve, senior legal consultant for the Child Law Advice Service, considers recent cases in the High Court Family Division seeking to resolve parentage issues for children born through IVF using a sperm donor.

Ellie Butler case shows we need scrutiny of family courts

Other

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

| CYP Now

How do we respond professionally when things go wrong? How do we act and learn from what has happened? Three specific, but very different, issues have brought this firmly to mind.

Legal Update: Covert recordings as evidence

Other

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

| CYP Now

Kelly Reeve, senior legal consultant and team leader for the Child Law Advice Service, considers the implications of cases concerning the use of covert recordings as evidence in family law proceedings.