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Court rules disability benefit suspension breached human rights

Friday, July 10, 2015

| CYP Now

The suspension of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) of a disabled child during his stay in hospital was in breach of the Human Rights Act, the Supreme Court has found.

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability-related financial support

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Q: I work with a 17-year-old young person who has a disability. Can she receive direct payments from her local authority for social care services?

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability discrimination at school

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Q: A young person I work with wishes to make a complaint about disability discrimination in relation to an experience she had at her school. How should she go about doing this?

Benefit rules for children in hospital face legal challenge

News

Friday, August 8, 2014

| CYP Now

The government's decision to suspend disability living allowance (DLA) for ill children who spend more than 84 days in hospital is to be challenged in the Supreme Court.

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

News

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| CYP Now

A panel of criminal justice and mental health experts has called for greater scrutiny into how liaison and diversion services for young people are being implemented across England.

Daily roundup: Child protection, mental health and early years

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Monday, May 19, 2014

| CYP Now

Academics criticise government plans to outsource children's social care; NHS England raises concerns over failure to meet child mental health needs; and nursery to investigate after toddler found wandering streets, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Out-of-work benefits, school preparedness, and legal system

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Monday, April 28, 2014

| CYP Now

New sanctions introduced for long-term unemployed; schoolchildren still wearing nappies study finds; and children to give evidence away from court through pilot study, all in the news today.

Birmingham criticised for failing to meet autistic boy's needs

News

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Birmingham City Council has been rebuked by the Local Government Ombudsman for failing to provide support to the mother of an autistic boy whose violent behaviour was deemed to be of "considerable risk" to others.

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

| CYP Now

There is an "unhelpful" misperception among the media and public about the nature of out-of-authority placements for looked-after children, council care managers have said.

Challenge to SEN legal barriers

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Monday, June 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Children with special educational needs face limitations in accessing justice, but this could soon be addressed by proposed changes to education law, says Tom Farrell, education law adviser at Coram Children's Legal Centre

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

News

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

| CYP Now

A landmark legal judgment has branded current housing benefit rules discriminatory against disabled children.?

SEN legislation ‘built on quicksand'

News

Thursday, May 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Campaigners for disabled children have warned ministers that legislation aimed at simplifying processes for children with special educational needs (SEN) will falter because of widespread reductions in specialist support services.

Families and Children Bill to reform SEN and adoption systems

News

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

| CYP Now

The Queen has outlined the details of a new Families and Children Bill in her first speech to parliament since the coalition was formed in 2010.

Young people with autism 'need legal right to educational support'

News

Friday, October 14, 2011

| CYP Now

Young disabled people must be given the legal right to educational support up to the age of 25 if they are to achieve independence later in life, a charity has warned.

ChildRIGHT: In a Nutshell -- Public sector duties in the Equality Act 2010

Other

Monday, October 3, 2011

| CYP Now

Earlier this year, the public sector equality provisions of the Equality Act came into effect. What obligations do public sector bodies now have?

Children's Society exposes failings in advocacy services for disabled children

News

Monday, September 26, 2011

| CYP Now

The Children's Society is calling for an overhaul of advocacy support for disabled children after latest research showed widespread problems with current services.

Council forced to U-turn on cuts to deaf children's services

News

Friday, September 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Stoke-on-Trent council has made a U-turn on plans to cut services for deaf children following a High Court challenge by the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS).

Council faces legal challenge over plan to axe deaf children's support

News

Monday, August 22, 2011

| CYP Now

The National Deaf Children's Society is taking legal action against Stoke-on-Trent Council over its "reckless" cuts to educational support for deaf children.

Court Report: Challenge to a local authority's care

Other

Friday, July 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Case name: London Borough of Hillingdon v Neary & Anor; Case number: [2011] EWHC 1377 (COP); Judge: Mr Justice Peter Jackson; Location: Court of Protection, Royal Courts of Justice

Blackburn with Darwen council faces judicial review over cuts to short breaks service

News

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

| CYP Now

A High Court challenge has been launched against Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council following its decision to withdraw funding for a short breaks service that supports more than 20 disabled children.

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Court rules disability benefit suspension breached human rights

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability-related financial support

Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability discrimination at school

Benefit rules for children in hospital face legal challenge

Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services

Daily roundup: Child protection, mental health and early years

Daily roundup: Out-of-work benefits, school preparedness, and legal system

Birmingham criticised for failing to meet autistic boy's needs

Media portrayal of out-of-area care placements ‘unhelpful'

Challenge to SEN legal barriers

Housing benefit criteria found to discriminate against disabled children

SEN legislation ‘built on quicksand'

Families and Children Bill to reform SEN and adoption systems

Young people with autism 'need legal right to educational support'

ChildRIGHT: In a Nutshell -- Public sector duties in the Equality Act 2010

Children's Society exposes failings in advocacy services for disabled children

Council forced to U-turn on cuts to deaf children's services

Council faces legal challenge over plan to axe deaf children's support

Court Report: Challenge to a local authority's care

Blackburn with Darwen council faces judicial review over cuts to short breaks service

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