Coram Children’s Legal Centre welcomes the government scrapping child detention powers in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, published today. Powers to detain children without time limit were brought in with the Illegal Migration Act 2023, though had not yet been commenced. They included allowing the government to lock up children arriving in the…
From tomorrow, 1st January 2025, most non-British children who live in the UK will need an e-visa to prove their immigration status.
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 Home Office plans to replace all physical immigration documents with digital ‘eVisas’ by 31 December 2024. Here we provide some basic information on what we know so far. The Home Office has started the process to replace all physical immigration documents, called biometric residence cards (BRPs), with digital ‘eVisas’ by 31 December 2024. This…
The minimum income requirement for partner visas is having a devastating impact on British children, report finds.
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…