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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Social care fails to act quickly enough over neglect
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- Wednesday, March 26, 2014 | CYP Now
Councils, local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) and social work training are failing to prioritise child neglect, according to an Ofsted report.
Concurrent planning reduces problems for adopted children, finds study
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- Friday, March 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Children adopted through concurrent planning are less likely to experience problems, such as school exclusion, behaviour difficulties and depression, than those who are placed with families at a later stage.
Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews
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- Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | CYP Now
Victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) may be so influenced by abusers that they are unable to provide full or accurate accounts of their experiences to safeguarding professionals, analysis has concluded.
Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Special guardianship order cases
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- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
The Court of Appeal highlights the importance of substantive and procedural protections in special guardianship order cases.
Legal Update: Trafficking victims and families
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 | CYP Now
Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the gaps in service provision for families and child victims of trafficking and how this group can be better supported.
Trafficked girl wins age dispute case against council
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- Thursday, June 16, 2011 | CYP Now
A Nigerian girl has won a legal battle against a London borough that claimed she was an adult following an age assessment.
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