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Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Consent required when taking a child overseas

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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Q. A parent I advise wants to take her 10-year-old child overseas to visit her family for Christmas. Will she need the consent of the child's father, who she has separated from, though was never married to?

Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

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The body set up to oversee the adoption system has issued guidance in an effort to halt a sharp slump in the number of court orders being made for children to be adopted.

Legal Update: Court Report - Application to end life support

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

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Case name: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v T and Others 29 & 30 September 2014 Case number EWHC 3315 (Fam)

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Parental involvement law comes into effect

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

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Courts must presume that, unless otherwise shown, involvement of both separating parents in a child's life will further the child's welfare.

Legal Update: Children's voices in proceedings

Monday, September 29, 2014

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Jen Roest, Coram Children's Legal Centre's research and project's officer, takes a look at recent developments concerning children's voices being heard within UK family justice proceedings.

Court Report: Appeal against interim orders

Monday, September 15, 2014

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Case name: K (Children) (2014) EWCA Civ 1195 Case number (2014) EWCA Civ 1195

Court Report: Children can stay in Bangladesh

Monday, August 18, 2014

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Case name: Re H Case number: EWCA Civ 1101 [2014]

Daily roundup: Youth centres, children's services and leadership

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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Charities set to take on running of Liverpool youth centres; tri-borough arrangements to be reviewed by Labour; and new DCS appointed in Southwark, all in the news today.

Children to be given greater voice in care proceedings

Thursday, July 24, 2014

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More will be done to ensure children over the age of 10 who are involved in care proceedings or custody cases have their views heard in court, the government has announced.

Faster court process cuts residential parenting assessments

Monday, July 21, 2014

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Social workers are scaling back their use of residential parenting assessments due to Children and Families Act changes to the length of care proceedings, latest government research has found.

Legal Update: Court Report - Application for the return of a child

Monday, June 23, 2014

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Case name B v B Case number [2014] EWHC 1804

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Increase in the use of McKenzie friends

Monday, June 23, 2014

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An increase of litigants in person in family court proceedings has led to a rise in the use of McKenzie friends to support these litigants.

Daily roundup: Early education, youth employment, and care proceedings

Monday, June 23, 2014

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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.

Daily roundup: Job support, family courts and child poverty

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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Intensive support trialled for jobless 16- and 17-year-olds not receiving benefits; adoption hearing cancelled due to lack of translators; and report reveals impact of recession on child poverty, all in the news today.

Pre-case work pays dividends

Monday, May 26, 2014

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Early intervention with troubled families has helped many authorities reduce the number of care proceedings.

Legal Update: Court Report - Special guardianship and adoption orders

Monday, May 26, 2014

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Most councils report fall in care applications

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

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The majority of English councils have recorded an annual drop in the number of children in care applications, according to figures released by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).

Legal Update: Legal aid changes and family law

Monday, May 12, 2014

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Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the impact that changes to civil legal aid are having on access to justice in private family law matters.

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

Thursday, May 1, 2014

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The effectiveness of a specialist court to tackle parental substance misuse could be undermined as a result of the introduction of the 26-week care proceedings target, academics have warned.

Legal Update: Court Report - Child found at risk of psychological harm

Monday, April 28, 2014

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Daily roundup: Inspections, sex education, and child health

Thursday, April 24, 2014

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Cafcass gets "good" rating from Ofsted; role of PSHE to be assessed by MPs; and government consults on allowing schools to keep spare asthma inhalers, all in the news today.

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Changes to family mediation requirements

Monday, April 14, 2014

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The Children and Families Act effectively makes it compulsory for persons to attend a 'MIAM' before making a family court application.

Legal Update: Court Report - Application to oppose adoption

Monday, March 31, 2014

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Case name: Prospective Adopters v IA & Others Case number [2014] EWHC 331 (Fam)

Legal Update: Court Report - Mother fakes child's death to stop contact

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

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Case name SA v BN (contact order) Case number [2013] EWHC 4417 (Fam)

Legal Update: Court Report - Care and criminal proceedings

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

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Case name: A Local Auth v DG & Others [2014] EWHC 63 (Fam) Case number UC13C00129

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