ChildRIGHT is our regular section in Children & Young People Now magazine. To read back copies please follow the links below:

May 2011

• Ask the experts: When can a parent change their child's surname?
• Interview: Get it right from the start
• Duty of care: An end to immigration detention for children?
• Court report: Baby boy suffered fractured ribs
• In a nutshell: Separating couples must now consider mediation

April 2011

• Ask the Expert: The role of Cafcass
  
• ChildRIGHT Interview: Syd Bolton, co-director, The Refugee Children's Rights Project (RCRP)
• Ask the Expert: Children and their files
• In a Nutshell -- Introduction of a new category of care leaver
• Duties of care -- Case clarifies duties to children in care with SEN

March 2011

• Legal aid: Legal aid cuts will deny justice to many children
• Interview: Gemma Lees, team leader of the Child Law Advice Line
• Ask the Expert: Family mediation
• In a Nutshell: Care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

February 2011 (second edition)

• Ask the Expert: Failure to support children with SEN
• Ask the Expert: Separated parents and distance
• Ask the Expert: Assessing children for special educational needs
• Ask the Expert: Smacking children

February 2011

• Participation rights: Children's right to have their views heard
• In a Nutshell: Local Government Ombudsman complaints
• Ask the experts: From what age can a young person babysit?
• ChildRIGHT Interview: Gail Emerson, social policy campaigns officer, Citizen's Advice

January 2011

• Interview: Matt Buttery, chief executive, Family Matters Institute
• Focus: Tuition fees and the right to higher education
• Court report: Indirect contact with half-siblings
• In a nutshell: Child witnesses giving evidence in court
• Ask the experts: What is an advocate and how can they help? At what age can a young person gt married or register a civil partnership?

November 2010

• In a nutshell -- Contact with a child after parents split up
• Duty of Care -- Care of former asylum-seeking children
• Court Report: Disclosure of an abuse assessment
• What is a Youth Rehabilitation Order?

October 2010

• At what age can a child enter into a contract?
• In a nutshell - Establishing a private fostering arrangement
• Edward Duff, trainee solicitor, Children's Legal Centre
• Legal Aid - changes to legal aid threaten family law

September 2010

• Parenting -- Dangerous presumption on shared parenting
• Interview with Celeste Greenwood, volunteer on the Girls' Support Service project, Tajikistan
• Can a parent restrict what the other parent is able to do during their contact time?
• In a nutshell -- The prevention of child abduction
• Court Report: (Birara) v London Borough of Hounslow

July 2010

• Can a contact order be varied if the circumstances of either parent change?
• The impact of the Equality Act 2010
• Immigration -- Forced return to Afghanistan
• Interview: Alison East, immigration adviser and outreach worker, Children's Legal Centre