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Legal Update: Advice for potential victims of trafficking

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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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R (oao LL) -v- The Lord Chancellor CO/3581/2017

Legal Update: Immigration bail and 'no study' conditions

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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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Home Office guidance has been revised after immigration changes left young people, including care leavers, cut off from education.

Legal Update: Support for homeless young people

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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

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Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines new government guidance on providing the right support for young people who are homeless.

Legal Update: SEND - Single route of redress national trial

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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April saw the start of a two-year trial of a process that gives parents and young people a single route of redress regarding SEND concerns.

Court Report: Herefordshire Council v AB [2018] EWFC 10

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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This judgment deals with two separate cases of AB & CD and EF & GH, two young people accommodated by Herefordshire Council under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 for eight and nine years respectively.

Legal Update: Transferring asylum-seeking children

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines new guidance for the National Transfer Scheme for transferring asylum-seeking children in the UK.

Legal Update: Case highlights foreign adoption complexities

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

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A Supreme Court judgment has highlighted the complexities of bringing children who have been adopted abroad to the UK.

Legal Update: Education of looked-after children

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

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Richard Oldershaw, team leader with the Child Law Advice Service, examines the new guidance and funding to promote educational attainment for looked-after children and those who have left care.

Legal Q&A: School admissions

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Monday, March 26, 2018

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If a child has not been given any of the parent or carer's preferred school choices, what are the options?

Councils face EHC plan deadline

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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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.

Driving change for care leavers: Mark Riddell, national implementation adviser for care leavers

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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Derren Hayes meets the social worker driving reforms for care leavers.

Court Report: Application for a parental order after international surrogacy

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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The High Court ruled that a man who, with his male husband, had a child via a surrogate mother in the United States, could not be declared the legal parent of the toddler after the marriage had broken down.

Legal Update: Be alert to signs of child trafficking

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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Stewart MacLachlan, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explores the risks facing child victims of trafficking and reasons for the low levels of prosecution for trafficking offences.

Legal Update: Adoption of children from other countries

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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British citizens have three main types of intercountry adoption available to them if they wish to adopt a child from another country.

Legal Update: Access to justice for abuse victims

Features

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Marianne Lagrue, policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, outlines new rules on evidence for legal aid in cases of domestic or child abuse that will benefit those living in desperate situations.

Legal Q&A: What is a child advocate?

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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Advocates support, enable and empower young people to be heard.

Legal Update: Use of dental X-rays to determine a child's age

Other

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Recent judgments cast more doubt on processes used to determine the age of young asylum seekers who arrive without documentation

Legal Q&A: Education for children out of school

Other

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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What is compulsory school age?

Legal Update: Safeguarding unaccompanied children

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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explores the government's plans for safeguarding unaccompanied children, including victims of trafficking.

Legal Update: Understanding the difference in care plans

Features

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

| CYP Now

The Child Law Advice Service explores the different options children's services have when dealing with looked-after children.

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Legal Update: Advice for potential victims of trafficking

Legal Update: Immigration bail and 'no study' conditions

Legal Update: Support for homeless young people

Legal Update: SEND - Single route of redress national trial

Court Report: Herefordshire Council v AB [2018] EWFC 10

Legal Update: Transferring asylum-seeking children

Legal Update: Case highlights foreign adoption complexities

Legal Update: Education of looked-after children

Legal Q&A: School admissions

Councils face EHC plan deadline

Driving change for care leavers: Mark Riddell, national implementation adviser for care leavers

Court Report: Application for a parental order after international surrogacy

Legal Update: Be alert to signs of child trafficking

Legal Update: Adoption of children from other countries

Legal Update: Access to justice for abuse victims

Legal Q&A: What is a child advocate?

Legal Update: Use of dental X-rays to determine a child's age

Legal Q&A: Education for children out of school

Legal Update: Safeguarding unaccompanied children

Legal Update: Understanding the difference in care plans

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