Fairness in school exclusions: A roadmap for changeThis report draws on CCLC’s legal casework representing children facing exclusion, alongside case studies from Coram’s Child Law Advice Service. It highlights how children with the greatest level of need can lose access to education through informal exclusionary practices with little transparency or independent scrutiny.
Ahead of the Government’s upcoming inclusion reforms, the report calls for clearer national guidance on exclusionary practices operating outside, or on the margins of, the statutory framework and sets out a series of recommendations to ensure strengthened IRPs and greater transparency and accountability across the exclusions system.
Read the report here.
Coram has responded to the Home Secretary’s plans to reform the system for settlement in the UK, set out in Parliament today. The plans announced include some important five-year routes for children but will keep thousands of children in limbo and bar some families from ever getting permanent status, with children in refugee families waiting…
02/11/2026
Routes to permanent status of ten years and more are not in children’s interests, says CCLC, as the Home Office today announces its response to its consultation on “earned settlement”, set out in November 2025 proposing waits for permanent status of up to 30 years. It is expected to announce that many visa-holders who came…
02/11/2026
The Secretary of State’s announcement of a call for evidence is a welcome step providing an opportunity for greater accountability on internal suspension and the post-suspension process The Education Secretary stated in her speech today that she wants to ‘improve how we do exclusions’. Setting out ways this can be done was the aim of CCLC’s…
15/10/2026
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: