1
- 11+ examination
a
- Abduction
- Academic Year
- Academy Schools
- Academy Schools Trust
- Accommodated children
- Acknowledgement of service
- acquired gender
- Adjournment
- Admission arrangements
- Admission Authority
- Admission Number
- Adoption
- Adultery
- Advocate
- Advocate
- Ancillary relief
- Annulment
- Applicant
- Associated Person
b
- Barrister
- Bigamy
- Brief
- Bundle
c
- CAFCASS
- Care Order
- Catchment area
- Child Arrangements Order
- Child Arrangements Order Allowance
- Child in need
- Child maintenance
- Child Protection
- Child Protection Case Conference
- Child Protection Plan
- Child Protection Register
- Child Witnesses
- Children's Services
- Circuit Judge
- City Academy
- Civil Partnership
- Clare's Law
- Clean Break
- Co-ordination
- Common Application Form
- Common Assessment Framework
- Community School
- Composite prospectus
- Consent Order
- Contact Activity Condition
- Contact Activity Direction
- Contact book
- Contact centre
- Contact order
- Contempt of court
- Court Lists
- Cross examination
d
- decree absolute
- decree nisi
- Deed Poll
- Departmental advice
- Determination year
- Direct Payments
- Directions Order
- Disability Discrimination
- Discharge
- Disclosure of the child’s whereabouts
- District Judge
- Divorce
- Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme
- Domestic Violence Protection Notice
- Domestic Violence Protection Order
e
- Early years pupil premium
- Education Health and Care Needs Assessment
- Education Health and Care Plan
- Educational Record
- Emergency Protection Order
- Enforcement Order
- Ex parte application
- Ex parte hearing
- Exclusion
- Exclusion order
- Expert witness
f
- Family Assistance order
- Family Court
- Family Court Adviser
- Family Mediation
- Filing
- Final Hearing
- First Hearing Dispute Resolution Appointment
- First Tier Tribunal
- Forced Marriage
- Forced Marriage Protection Orders
- Forced Marriage Unit
- Fostering
- Foundation school
g
- Governing body
- Grammar school
- Guardian
h
- Hague Convention
- High Court Judges
i
- Independent Review Panel
- Independent Reviewing Officer
- Individual Healthcare Plan
- Infant class size limit
- Injunction
- Interim contact
j
- Judgment
- Judicial review
- Judicial separation
k
- Kinship care
l
- LADO
- Legal Aid
- Liberty to return
- Litigant in person
- Litigation friend
- Local Authority
- Local Offer
- Looked after children
m
- Maintained schools
- Managed move
- McKenzie Friend
- Mediation
- MIAM
n
- National Curriculum
- National Offer Day
- Non-Molestation Order
- Normal Admissions Round
o
- Occupation Order
- Offer Year
- Outcomes
- Oversubscription
- Oversubscription Criteria
p
- Parental involvement
- Parental Responsibility Agreement
- Parental Responsibility Order
- Parenting plan
- Placement Order
- Private fostering
- Prohibited Steps Order
- Public Law Outline
- Pupil premium
- Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)
r
- Recorder
- Removal from Jurisdiction Order
- Residence Order
- Respondent
s
- Sarah's Law
- School Action
- School exclusion
- Schools Adjudicator
- Section 37 Report
- Section 47 Enquiry
- Section 7 Report
- Section 8 Order
- SEN Mediation
- SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator)
- Separated Parents Information Programme
- Separated Parents Information Programme (SPIP)
- Service premium
- Set aside
- Shared Residence
- Smacking
- Solicitor
- Special Educational Needs
- Special Educational Needs Support
- Special educational provision
- Special Guardianship
- Special Guardianship Allowance
- Special School
- Specific Issue Order
- State school
- Statement of Special Educational Needs
- Statutory Guidance
- Statutory SEN Assessment
- Staying contact
- Step-parent
- Striking out
- Supervised contact
- Supervision Order
t
- Testamentary Guardian
- testator
u
- Undertaking
- Usher
v
- Vacated
- Variation
- Voluntary Aided School
- Voluntary Controlled School
w
- Waiting Lists
- Wardship
- Welfare Checklist
Christmas Closure
The Child Law Advice Service will be closed from 24/12/2024 and will reopen on 02/01/2025.
Our telephone lines will close at 4pm on 20/12/2024 and reopen at 10am on 02/01/2025. Our webchat service will close at 4pm on 23/12/2024 and reopen at 8am on 02/01/2025. Any emails enquiries received over Christmas will be answered within 5 working days of our return to the office.
