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40 years championing children’s rights

Coram Children’s Legal Centre 40 years championing children's rightsIn 1981, following the International Year of the Child, the Children’s Legal Centre was registered as a charity with the primary purpose of promoting the rights of the child. Today, Coram Children’s Legal Centre is an award-winning independent children’s rights charity which provides:

  • > free legal information, advice and representation to children, young people, families, carers and professionals in immigration, community care, education and family law

> training and practice development, policy leadership and research and consultancy on children’s rights in the UK and internationally

Read about our history and the work we are doing today in our Championing Children’s Rights publication. We also produced a video celebrating 40 years of our work which can be found here.

Latest News

Children’s organisations led by Coram write to Home Secretary with concerns over child detention proposals

Leading children’s organisations and charities have written to the Home Secretary to express concern at plans in the Illegal Migration Bill to reintroduce child detention. They have condemned the child detention proposals in the Bill as ‘immoral’ and in breach of international law. Reneging on ban on child detention The coalition government committed to end…

20/03/2023


Illegal Migration Bill runs roughshod over children’s rights

The UK’s commitment to the Refugee Convention was undermined last year with the Nationality and Borders Act, and this new proposal goes further. It effectively puts a fence up around the UK’s asylum system, with no way in for children and young people seeking safety. Children who come to the UK with their families will…

08/03/2023


CCLC concerns highlighted in critical report on the Government’s family migration policies

The Justice and Home Affairs Committee recently published its report All families matter: An inquiry into family migration following its inquiry into family migration in the UK. The aim of the inquiry was to approach family migration policies in the widest possible sense, looking at general trends in the design of family immigration pathways, as well…

07/03/2023


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One in ten children in care has an immigration or nationality issue

At least one in every ten children in care has an unresolved immigration or nationality issue, according to new research published by Coram Children’s Legal Centre and the South London Refugee Association and endorsed by many major children’s organisations.

The report, Taking Care: How local authorities can best address immigration issues of children in care, also finds that delaying help on immigration and nationality issues could be costing local authorities hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. A citizenship application for a child costs £1012; by contrast, waiting until the young person leaves care can cost as much as £130,000 in Home Office fees and support with living.

Coram Children’s Legal Centre and other charities are working with local authorities, asking them to sign a pledge to:

  • identify all looked-after children and care leavers with immigration and nationality issues;
  • connect looked-after children and care leavers with good quality legal support as soon as possible;
  • take a proactive and informed role in supporting looked after children and care leavers through any immigration applications and appeals;
  • enable those who are eligible to apply for permanent status and British citizenship

For more information, read the report Taking care here.

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