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2024 Spring Newsletter
In this Spring's edition of the newsletter, find out how Coram are fighting for a fair chance for all children through changing lives, laws, and systems.
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves meets with Coram team in her Leeds constituency
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.
New Belongings Programme: Final evaluation report (2022)
New Belongings was a three-year programme (2019-2022) delivered by Coram Voice to support eight local authorities in England to better engage their care leavers in service improvements. Though better engagement and involvement of young people as experts in their own experience, the programme aimed to encourage local authorities to improve their support for young care leavers.
CCLC’s Qaisar Sheikh wins Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award
Qaisar Sheikh, head of Education Law at CCLC, has been named Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in the category of public law at the Legal Aid Practitioner Group’s 20th Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards which took place on 12 July.
Rights without Remedies seminar: full speech by Sir Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer QC MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, has lamented that the government made ‘a political choice’ not to transpose the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, with its explicit commitment to the fundamental rights of the child, into domestic law under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. He also joined Coram in calling for the full incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into UK law, at our Rights without Remedies seminar held at Coram on 2nd May 2019.
Unfair results : Pupil and parent views on school exclusion
Between July and October 2018 Coram conducted research with parents and pupils to understand their views and experiences on exclusion.