Coram Children’s Legal Centre welcomes today’s announcement of a redress in the balance of fees paid to legal aid lawyers working on asylum and immigration, which will enable us to keep fighting for the rights of young refugees and migrants and play our part in maintaining a fair asylum and immigration system. For many…
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the school exclusion statistics for the autumn term of 2023/2024, showing that both permanent exclusions and suspensions remain at high levels, continuing the worrying trend revealed in the annual figures for the 2022/23 academic year, published last July. This release comes as the government turns its attention to improving wellbeing in…
Today’s independent report by the Isos Partnership, commissioned by the County Councils Network and the Local Government Association, provides a comprehensive analysis of systemic issues within the SEND system and asserts that reform is essential and unavoidable – it’s a matter of when, not if. The report sets out a broad and comprehensive blueprint for reform,…
New DfE statistics show an alarming rise in exclusions in the year 2022/23, as permanent exclusions jump 44% in a year. Coram has responded to the release by the Department for Education (DfE) of the number of suspensions and permanent exclusions from state schools in England during the academic year 2022/23. A large increase in…
Many measures in the King’s Speech have a strong focus on children’s wellbeing, others present opportunities to focus on children’s rights
The final judgment has been given in a case brought by ECPAT (Every Child Protected Against Trafficking) against Kent County Council (‘Kent CC’) and the Home Office, challenging the use of hotels to house unaccompanied children who have claimed asylum. In September 2021 Kent CC agreed a protocol with the Home Office setting out how…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) is in the High Court today and tomorrow (May 21-22) at the start of a vital case against the Director of Legal Aid Casework and the Lord Chancellor. The Claimant is represented by Stephanie Harrison KC and Ollie Persey of Garden Court Chambers, with the support of the Equality and…
It is still uncertain how the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 will apply to individual children and young people, and will be until the Home Office publishes more information about its new asylum scheme. Here we provide some basic information on what we know so far. 30 April 2024 After many attempts…
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill has passed, and is now law. The legislation strikes a blow to the UK’s commitment to international law. Against international law We have worked with our partners in the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium throughout the passage of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill to…
Following an intervention by CCLC, the Home Office has confirmed that children and young people who were brought to the UK in 2016 and 2017 as part of the Calais camp clearance will now have a shorter wait before getting permanent status, known as indefinite leave to remain or settlement, and no fee to pay.…