Vulnerable children in England are set to benefit from a national advocacy strategy under development by a group led by the children's commissioner for England and the outgoing chief executive of charity Voice.
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?
Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines how a Council of Europe resolution relates to the rights of transgender young people to change their legal gender.
Flavia Colonnese, researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the government's obligations to protect children's rights outside the UK in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines changes to data collection on private fostering arrangements and what further work is needed to safeguard children and young people.
Case name: ASB and KBS and MQS (through his Children's Guardian Pauline Bennett); Case number: [2009] EWHC 2491 (Fam) Family Division; Judge: Mr Justice Bennett; Location: 13 October 2009
This recent Supreme Court case has given further clarification on how the best interests of the child are considered in immigration cases, in particular when there has been criminality on the part of the parents.
Guidelines on prosecuting cases of child sexual abuse issued by the director of public prosecutions aim to strengthen victims' access to justice, says Catherine Williams, solicitor at Coram Children's Legal Centre.
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.