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School admissions framework: Legal update

The current primary school admissions process continues to lead to poorer outcomes for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, says Richard Oldershaw of the Child Law Advice Service.

Sibling relationships in the care system

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  • 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.

Immigration and nationality legal aid

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  • Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, examines the implications of recent changes to legal aid for separated children with immigration cases.

Children’s services inspection

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Ofsted says the children’s services inspection regime is working well, but an independent assessment found areas for improvement. The ADCS’s Steve Crocker tells Jo Stephenson how ILACS can be refined.

Legal Q&A: What is sexting?

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  • Monday, September 30, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Sexting is the exchange of sexual messages or self-generated sexual images or videos through a mobile phone network or the internet.

Support for special guardians

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  • 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 Q&A: What is Section 67?

Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 (sometimes known as the "Dubs amendment") placed a requirement on the Home Office to "make arrangements to relocate to the United Kingdom and support a specified number of unaccompanied refugee children from other countries in Europe". The government has committed to transferring 480 children from France, Greece and Italy under section 67.

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