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The Children's Legal Centre (CLC) is a registered charity which operates in the UK and around the world.

Founded in 1981, The Children's Legal Centre has 29 years of experience in providing legal advice and representation to children, their carers and professionals throughout the UK.

The CLC is funded by grants from central government, UNICEF, and charitable trusts.

Services[edit]

The Child Law Advice Line (CLAL) 08088 020 008 is a freephone line where callers can access advice on a wide range of legal issues relating to children including parental responsibility, contact, adoption and housing.

The CLC also operates the education advice service on the Community Legal Advice helpline (0845 345 4345) which answers legal queries on issues including school admission appeals, attendance and bullying. Alexvalk (talk) 10:36, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Legal representation[edit]

The CLC’s solicitors specialise in education and family law and we have legal aid contracts in Essex and central London.

The CLC's legal practice represents children in family disputes, helps families to access Special Educational Needs provision, work with age disputed asylum-seeking children to ensure they receive adequate support, and help young people to access appropriate housing and support when leaving care. The charity also works on school exclusions and school admissions cases.

Factsheets[edit]

The Children’s Legal Centre publishes a wide range of free factsheets on family and education law to help children, parents and carers.

The factsheets cover everything from abduction to guardianship, and are available to download for free from www.childrenslegalcentre.com. Also available on the website, free are podcasts and vodcasts in the UK’s nine most widely-spoken languages.

Lawstuff.org.uk[edit]

This specially designed website was created to fill the gap in information available to children and young people who want to find out how the law affects them, and what their legal rights are. The topics covered on the website include education, healthcare, leaving home, and crime.

The site was designed in collaboration with young people. Researchers consulted with more than 100 young people across England and Wales to establish what they wanted from the website. A further 21 forums with young people have taken place since its launch in April 2010 to find out how the site could be improved. Changes are due to be made as a result of these in early 2011.

Research[edit]

The CLC's research team has produced reports on administrative detention, homelessness, complaints from children in the justice system, child impact assessments and bullying.

International Team[edit]

The international team works with governments, the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organisations to achieve systemic reform (law, policy and practice) in countries around the world. The aim of our work is to ensure the implementation of children’s rights and improve the situation of children without family care, children at risk of family breakdown, children with disabilities and children in conflict with the law. In 2009, the Children's Legal Centre (CLC) started a three year project in Tajikistan – the Girls’ Support Service – funded by Big Lottery Fund, the European Union and the Sigrid Rausing Trust.

Migrant Children’s Project[edit]

The Migrant Children's Project aims to ensure that refugee, asylum seeking and migrant children are able to obtain the services and assistance to which they are legally entitled. The project has a dedicated web section and publishes a monthly newsletter on changes in law and policy which affect migrant children. The team have also published a report Seeking Support, a guide to the rights and entitlements of separated refugee and asylum seeking children. The project employs a dedicated legal caseworker who provides legal representation free of charge to migrant children in need of assistance. The project also offers advice for professionals and carers, and offers training to statutory and voluntary organisations.

Training and consultancy[edit]

The CLC provides training and consultancy for professionals in the field of child law, such as social services departments, teachers, youth workers, foster carers and health professionals, as well as international organisations.