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Legal Update: Support for special guardians

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  • 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.

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.

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.

Morgan criticised for foster care ‘slur'

    News
  • Friday, January 15, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised for denigrating foster care with comments she made as the government launched a bid to reverse a sharp drop in adoptions.

Sector split over Family Justice Review proposals

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  • Thursday, November 3, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has condemned proposals to impose a six-month time limit on public care cases and reduce the use of expert independent social work witnesses in courts.

Out-of-court advocacy

A pioneering scheme is aiming to transform the role of guardians by involving them in family proceedings at an earlier stage to prevent cases from going to court and reduce delays. Lauren Higgs reports

Legal Update: Cuts hit overseas divorce ruling

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  • Tuesday, October 15, 2013
    • | CYP Now
A recent High Court case illustrates the negative impact legal aid cuts are having on access to justice in family courts, says Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager, Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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