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Legal Q&A: Charging for school activities

    Other
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Sections 449-462 of the Education Act 1996 govern the law on "charging for school activities". This applies to all maintained schools, academies and local authorities.

Legal Update: How to tackle repeat removals

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explores the need to address the problems of parents who lose successive children in repeat care proceedings.

Legal Update: Care leavers and the 'local offer'

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 26, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Stewart MacLachlan, legal & policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at recent changes in leaving care support, including the introduction of the "local offer" and support for young migrants.

Legal Update: What Brexit will mean for children

    Analysis
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Frances Trevena, legal and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, sets out the government's current position and proposals for the status of European children after the UK finally leaves the EU

Legal Update: Shared responsibility

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines how local authorities are meeting the needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Court Report: Asylum application

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  • Thursday, June 1, 2017
  • | CYP Now
This case concerned a father (F) and mother (M), both Pakistan nationals, and their child (A) who was born in Pakistan in 2006. In August 2014, A and M came to the UK on a trip, but did not return to Pakistan as had been agreed with F, instead remaining in the UK and claiming asylum.

Legal Update: Reintroduction of grammar schools

Mohammed Sesay, senior legal adviser at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines what impact the Conservatives' proposed reintroduction of selective schools would have on England's education landscape.

Legal Update: School attendance and holidays

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at the rules around school attendance and taking holidays in term time in light of a Supreme Court ruling.