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Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Barring orders

Other

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Q. What are "barring orders"?

Legal Update: Legal aid changes and family law

Features

Monday, May 12, 2014

| CYP Now

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.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

News

Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Research Report: Capturing the Scale and Pattern of Recurrent Care Proceedings

Other

Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Researchers examine data relating to mothers repeatedly involved in care proceedings, with multiple children being taken into care.

Legal Update: Court Report - Council appeals against costs order

Other

Monday, April 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Family reunification for child refugees

Other

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Stewart MacLachlan considers recent case law that may allow some refugee children to apply to be reunited with their parents or siblings.

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2013

Other

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Providing a chance to thrive: How to secure the best outcomes for looked-after children against the backdrop of reduced budgets and rising demand.

Daily roundup: Judge criticises social workers, female offenders, and home tuition

Other

Friday, October 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Social workers told to obey court orders, women prisoners to be kept closer to families, and funding cut for tuition of looked-after children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Missing babies, nurture groups, and play

Other

Monday, June 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Nearly 20 babies reported missing from council care; research backs value of nurture groups; and £1.9m boost for play in Scotland, all in the news today.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

News

Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

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

Best Practice

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| CYP Now

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

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Special guardianship order cases

Other

Monday, May 11, 2015

| CYP Now

The Court of Appeal highlights the importance of substantive and procedural protections in special guardianship order cases.

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

News

Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of children being made subject to special guardianship orders (SGOs) is continuing to rise, government figures have shown.

Skills for the Job: Social media and social work

Other

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Social media can present difficult challenges for people working in the family courts, so how can practitioners use it securely?

Making best use of guardianships

Other

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Revised regulations on the use of special guardianship orders tighten criteria for assessing carers' suitability.

Children to be removed from families as part of ‘randomised adoption trial'

Other

Friday, April 1, 2016

| CYP Now

Scores of children will be removed from their birth parents under controversial government plans to prove the value of adoption, it has emerged.

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

News

Thursday, February 3, 2011

| CYP Now

England's top family judge has called for unmarried couples to get new rights to share property and money if they break up.

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Other

Monday, September 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Three out of four schools now judged as good or outstanding; former children's minister to step down as MP; and foster care myths exposed, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Votes at 16, governors to monitor teacher performance and young people's 'dangerous' diet habits

Other

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

| CYP Now

Calls to lower the voting age, proposals to use governors to monitor teacher performance and concerns over the diets of young people in deprived areas, all make the news today.

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

News

Thursday, May 1, 2014

| CYP Now

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.

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings - Research evidence

Research

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

| CYP Now

The research section for this special report is based on a selection of academic studies which have been explored and summarised by Research in Practice (www.rip.org.uk), part of the Dartington Hall Trust.

The Team Around the Relationship, Brighton & Hove

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

| CYP Now

Brighton & Hove City Council's relationship-based practice model of children's social work.

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

Other

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

| CYP Now

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: Support for special guardians

Other

Monday, April 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Coram Children's Legal Centre's Child Law Advice Service (CLAS) is receiving an increasing number of queries about special guardianship. Kelly Reeve, team leader of CLAS, examines this trend.

Review set to reveal Gove plans

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Youth justice experts say education of young offenders must not dominate the review of the system

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Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Barring orders

Legal Update: Legal aid changes and family law

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Research Report: Capturing the Scale and Pattern of Recurrent Care Proceedings

Legal Update: Court Report - Council appeals against costs order

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Family reunification for child refugees

CYP Now Children in Care Supplement 2013

Daily roundup: Judge criticises social workers, female offenders, and home tuition

Daily roundup: Missing babies, nurture groups, and play

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

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

Legal Update: In a Nutshell - Special guardianship order cases

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

Skills for the Job: Social media and social work

Making best use of guardianships

Children to be removed from families as part of ‘randomised adoption trial'

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

Daily roundup: Outstanding schools, Teather quits, and foster carers

Daily roundup: Votes at 16, governors to monitor teacher performance and young people's 'dangerous' diet habits

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

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings - Research evidence

The Team Around the Relationship, Brighton & Hove

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

Legal Update: Support for special guardians

Review set to reveal Gove plans

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