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Legal Update: The costs of immigration

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  • Tuesday, July 5, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Rising costs of making an immigration application or challenging a decision is set against the backdrop of ever-changing, complex rules, says Jessica Evans, outreach solicitor at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

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  • Tuesday, February 7, 2012
  • | CYP Now
I published a joint statement last week with my fellow children's commissioners across the UK about an issue that has kept many people across the children's sector both busy, and awake at night: the Welfare Reform Bill.

Young mums see rosy future

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  • Monday, April 29, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Family nurse partnerships originated in the US in the 1970s to support first-time teenage parents. Imported to England six years ago, the government is continuing to fund their expansion. Joe Lepper finds out why

Legal Update: The Children and Families Bill

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  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The Children and Families Bill includes a number of proposed reforms to existing legislation. Christopher Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the principal changes

A fresh workforce strategy is vital

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  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013
  • | CYP Now
The ability to make a difference to children's lives is critically affected by the quality and training of the profes­sionals and practitioners who work with them.

We must listen to children affected by domestic abuse

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  • Tuesday, January 7, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Did you enjoy the festive break? Some families will still be reeling from the effects - especially those living with domestic abuse. We know there is a seasonal spike in the reported incidents of domestic abuse over the holiday period and I do not expect this year to have been any different. And where there is domestic abuse in families, the impact on children and young people can be especially distressing.

Councils to share services to make savings

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  • Monday, October 17, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The vast majority of children's services decision-makers in local authorities across England are planning to share work with other councils to make financial savings, it has emerged.

Grooming case highlights failings

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  • Monday, June 25, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Following the conviction of a child grooming ring in Rochdale, Jo-Anne Prud'homme, legal researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, asks what more agencies could have done to protect the victims

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