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Legal Update: Family group conferences

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram outline findings from an evaluation of the use of FGCs at the pre-proceedings stage.

Legal Update: Tackling family court delays

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Children's welfare is being harmed by ongoing backlogs in the family court process which need to be addressed urgently says Richard Oldershaw, senior legal adviser at Coram's Child Law Advice Service.

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, explains how the charity is working with local authorities and judges to improve understanding of care orders so the right one is used.

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

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  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
Leonie Jordan, associate legal consultant at CoramBAAF, highlights some of the complex issues and potential instabilities surrounding the process for discharging special guardianship orders.

Family court improvement forum

Louise Sims, kinship care and fostering consultant at CoramBAAF, discusses the benefits of Quality Circle, an innovative forum to identify good practice developed by the Sussex Family Justice Board.

Separation under interim care orders

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
Case highlights need to balance welfare considerations, says Rosalyn Akar Grams, head of legal practice at Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

Legal Update: Special guardianship orders

Serious case review highlights need for rigorous assessments when placing a child with a special guardian, writes Kamena Dorling, head of policy & programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Legal Update: Covert recordings as evidence

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Kelly Reeve, senior legal consultant and team leader for the Child Law Advice Service, considers the implications of cases concerning the use of covert recordings as evidence in family law proceedings.

Legal Update: Review of special guardianship

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  • Monday, September 14, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a government consultation that will review the use of special guardianship, first introduced in 2005.

Legal Update: Poverty as immigration control

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  • Monday, June 22, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the situation of vulnerable families with "no recourse to public funds", due to their immigration status.