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Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Barring orders
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- Tuesday, February 4, 2014 | CYP Now
Q. What are "barring orders"?
Minister reveals delay to trafficking victims' advocate pilots
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- Wednesday, May 14, 2014 | CYP Now
A pilot to provide independent advocates to child trafficking victims will take place in 23 councils from September, two months after it was originally planned to go live.
Opposition to outsourcing of child protection gathers pace
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- Monday, May 19, 2014 | CYP Now
More than 8,000 people have signed a petition condemning government plans to outsource child protection services.
Call for youth workers to tackle gang mental health problems
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- Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | CYP Now
Youth workers should receive basic mental health training as part of a shake-up of services in order to support young people in gangs, MPs have been told.
Consultation on child protection
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- Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | CYP Now
Catherine Williams, child protection solicitor and project manager of the Coram Children's Legal Centre Child Protection Project, examines the government's consultation on child protection guidance
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
Safeguarding measures to shield children against bailiff action
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- Friday, February 17, 2012 | CYP Now
Safeguards to protect children from "intrusive and stressful" bailiffs are to be introduced by the government.
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.
Unregistered children’s homes: Legal Update
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- Thursday, January 2, 2020 | CYP Now
As the number of children being taken into care continues to rise, Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at concerns regarding unregulated and unregistered children’s homes.
Campaigners brand review of local authority duties 'distasteful'
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | CYP Now
The government's review of local authority statutory duties is "distasteful and damaging" for the protection of children's rights, campaigners have claimed.
In a Nutshell: Legal implications of sexting among children
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- Tuesday, January 3, 2017 | CYP Now
Kelly Reeve, senior legal consultant and team leader for the Child Law Advice Service, examines how the law stands around sexting.
Legal Update: In a Nutshell -- Combating child sexual exploitation
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- Monday, January 9, 2012 | CYP Now
Department for Education action plan focuses on key areas where improvements can be made and says raising awareness is crucial
Daily roundup: gang guide, appropriate adult schemes and registration fees
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- Thursday, July 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Government guide offers parents and carers advice on street gangs; revised national standards for appropriate adult schemes published; and proposed increase in social worker registration fee, all in the news today.
Trafficked children let down by system-wide support failures
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- Thursday, September 12, 2013 | CYP Now
Victims of child trafficking are being let down through "a culture of doubt and suspicion" across the justice and social care systems, according to a damning report by the Refugee Council and the Children's Society.
Charities develop support service for trafficked young males
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- Wednesday, October 16, 2013 | CYP Now
A peer support project for boys and young men who have been victims of human trafficking has been set up by Ecpat UK and the Children's Society.
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.
Daily roundup: Early education, youth employment, and care proceedings
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- Monday, June 23, 2014 | CYP Now
Labour to look at boosting school nurseries; fewer young people in work than over-50s; and figures reveal number of mothers with multiple children taken into care, all in the news today.
Think-tank highlights 'staggering' failings in support for vulnerable children
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- Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | CYP Now
Local authorities are carrying out "unscrupulous and illegal" practices to restrict the support they provide to vulnerable children in need of social care and mental health services, a think-tank has claimed.
Legal Update: Call for action plan on FGM
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- Monday, July 21, 2014 | CYP Now
The home affairs committee has published a report calling for a national action plan on female genital mutilation. Catrin Gosby, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the report's proposals.
Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Professional body for police consults on FGM
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- Monday, August 18, 2014 | CYP Now
The College of Policing is consulting on the development of an Authorised Professional Practice on female genital mutilation.
Immigration rules leave thousands of children destitute, Oxford University finds
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- Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | CYP Now
Thousands of children living in the UK without legal immigration status are at risk of destitution and exploitation because of contradictory rules and regulations, a report by the University of Oxford has claimed.
Striking the balance on abuse
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- Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | CYP Now
Jo-Anne Prud'homme, legal researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines what lessons can be learned from the case of parents charged with abuse after doctors failed to diagnose congenital rickets
Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Regulation of child performers
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
The licensing system aimed at protecting the welfare of children and young people who are performers has come under scrutiny
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