Coram Children's Legal Centre

Coram Children’s Legal Centre, part of the Coram group of charities, specialises in law and policy affecting children and young people.

CCLC provides free legal information, advice and representation to children, young people, their families, carers and professionals, as well as international consultancy on child law and children’s rights.

Since opening in 1981 as the major UK project for the International Year of the Child, the CLC has helped thousands of children, parents and carers. We are staffed by lawyers and professionals with experience in child law and funded by grants from central Government and charitable trusts.

The Children’s Legal Centre amalgamated with children’s charity Coram on 1 September 2011 and will now be known as Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

The partnership of these two influential charities, which officially began on 1 September, will unite Coram’s social-work led expertise and extensive reach to schools nationwide with the legal experience of the Children’s Legal Centre (the CLC) in promoting the rights of children throughout the UK and beyond. Click here to read the news release - 1 September 2011. 

 

WHAT'S NEW

Coram Children's Legal Centre seeks intern for new Child Protection Project - click here for full details.                                                                                  

 

RECENT PRESS RELEASES

School girl’s winning design promotes free legal support for children

18 April 2012 –Tilly , aged 15, created the winning screen saver design to promote Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s online Child Law Advice Service, which gives free advice on all areas of family, child and education law. The winning design has been transformed into a dynamic animated screen saver for computers, and a wallpaper for mobile phones. Both have been nationally distributed to a wide range of individuals and organisations who may wish to use the service themselves or signpost it to parents and children they work with.

Read the press release here.
To download the screen saver, the wallpaper and instructions for applying these to devices please visit http://bit.ly/CCLCfreelegaladvice.

 

Cherie Booth QC launches free online Children's Legal Advice Service as Helpline calls hit record levels

Cherie Booth QC, Patron of Coram Children's Legal Centre, launched an innovative online service on Tuesday 13 March at the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury, at a vital time for families who might not otherwise have access to legal advice. With current battles raging in the Lords and Commons over proposed cuts to legal aid, Coram Children's Legal Centre (CCLC) will be more vital than ever for parents, carers and young people who need advice about their rights and how to initiate court proceedings, as the charity plugs the ever growing gap in the provision of legal advice for vulnerable people.

Read the press release here.