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Legal Update: Is there any legal aid safety net?

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The safeguard for those needing legal assistance in areas of law not generally covered by legal aid has not been working, explains Anita Hurrell, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Legal Update: Illegal Migration Bill

Marianne Lagrue, policy and programmes manager in the Migrant Children's Project at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses the Illegal Migration Bill's impact on children and agencies.

Legal Update: Keeping children in care safe

CoramBAAF head of policy, research and development James Bury on how the vital role of health professionals for care safeguarding was explored at this year’s CoramBAAF Health Conference.

Legal Update: Care and immigration status

    Features
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Aayad Lami, solicitor at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, explains what support councils should provide to non-British children in care to ensure their immigration issues are identified earlier.

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.

Legal Update: Tackling family court delays

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Children's welfare is being harmed by ongoing backlogs in the family court process which need to be addressed urgently says Richard Oldershaw, senior legal adviser at Coram's Child Law Advice Service.

Legal Update: UN adopts complaints protocol

    Features
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Children whose rights have been violated will soon be able to complain to an international committee, writes Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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.

Child protection in sport

    Features
  • Monday, October 15, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Sport should be hugely fulfilling, but it can lead to negative experiences for children and forms of abuse, warns Ruth Barnes, international research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre

Councils face EHC plan deadline

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, group head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the need for local authorities to transfer children onto education, health and care plans by the end of March.

Separated children in care

Stewart MacLachlan, senior legal & policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, looks at recent changes for separated children in care and what professionals should consider when working with them.

Legal Update: Protecting children’s data

Rosalyn Akar Grams, head of legal practice at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, assesses the implications of a landmark legal case over an alleged data breach for the protection of children’s digital information.

Sibling relationships in the care system

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when making care plans or permanence orders for siblings, writes Dr John Simmonds, director of policy, research and development at CoramBAAF.

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