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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.

Latest News

CCLC’s response to the SEND Review

Qaisar Sheikh, head of education law and senior solicitor at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, outlines the key proposals and flaws in the government’s intended reforms to the special educational needs system in an article published in Children & Young People Now. For further media information please contact Dominique Fourniol: Dominique.fourniol@coram.org.uk Telephone: 07999 877 413 Find…

03/05/2022


Children and young people face new harm from the Nationality and Borders Act

Coram Children’s Legal Centre warns that the Nationality and Borders Act, which received Royal Assent and has become law today, risks compounding harm to a significant number of children and young people as it departs from long-standing principles of international law as well as existing safeguarding frameworks in the UK. The Act has faced innumerable…

28/04/2022


CCLC welcomes Home Office announcement of shorter, more affordable routes to settlement for migrant children and young adults in the UK

New immigration rules have been announced which will make it faster and more affordable for migrant children and young adults living in the UK to become settled. The introduction of these rules is a major victory for CCLC, young migrants, and children’s rights campaigners. The new rules, which will be effective on 20 June 2022,…

17/03/2022


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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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