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.

Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England

Hundreds of extremely vulnerable school-age children in England are being sent to illegal, unregulated homes every year because of a chronic shortage of places in secure local authority units.

Read the full article in the Guardian here.

Plan to register children not in school takes shape

17th December 2024

A register to identify children who are not in school in England will be part of a bill introduced to Parliament on Tuesday. Read the

Family Court Annual Report: October 2023 to September 2024

13th December 2024

Read the full report here.

Hundreds of English schools still at risk from crumbling concrete

13th November 2024

Hundreds of schools in England are still at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete, according to previously unpublished figures. Official data, which the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)

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