The High Court has ruled that the Home Office breached its duty to provide adequate asylum accommodation to a mother and her severely disabled child following a successful judicial review initiated by CCLC. The claim was brought by an asylum seeker and her severely disabled 5-year-old child. The child experiences frequent seizures and requires close…
The Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, today met with staff from Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) and Coram Family and Childcare (CFC) at CCLC’s Leeds office, to hear about Coram’s work to support families in a number of key areas. Rachel Reeves, the MP for Leeds West, was welcomed by Coram CEO Dr…
‘Undocumented children are triply vulnerable, as migrants, as persons in an irregular situation and as children. The laws tend to tackle their situation from a migration and status standpoint, and not from a child viewpoint’ Council of Europe A recent estimate put the number of undocumented migrant children in the UK at 120,000, with over…