The Strategic Legal Fund awarded two grants in its March round. Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) – £13,865 CCLC has been awarded funds for pre-litigation research in order to bring strategic legal action on EU settlement scheme applications made by children and young people with criminal convictions, including especially looked-after children and care leavers. Detention Action and Public Law […]
The Strategic Legal Fund, along with a wider group of funders, recognises that the covid-19 outbreak is an exceptional event that will have an impact on civil society groups, and want to offer reassurance that we stand with the sector during this time. We wish to be as helpful as possible during the coming weeks […]
Message from CPAG: HOW DOES IT WORK? The online services are accessed through your web browser at askcpag.org.uk In celebration of the launch, we would like to offer you access to ‘AskCPAG+’ for one month. We hope you enjoy everything it has to offer, such as the decision-making tools and letter generators, and see the benefit of the […]
JCWi is asking for any decision letters that you may have to assist their Families Together project. They are reviewing the quality of decision making following the Supreme Court’s judgement in MM Lebanon in 2017. They are particularly interested in gathering a body of decision letters in which the best interests of children were relevant to the […]
Migrants Organise have just published an SLF-funded evaluation on Home Office reporting conditions. Click here to read it. This research reveals some of the ways in which the current immigration bail regime and reporting conditions could affect the welfare of vulnerable individuals, including young migrants, those who have suffered from past traumatic events, and those who have […]
ILPA is offering a half-day advanced-level workshop on how to use litigation to challenge unfair and unlawful systems.This course has been developed in collaboration with the SLF and the Public Law Project (PLP). Topics include: Costs and funding, interventions, role of research and evidence gathering, collaboration & communications strategies and the importance of planning for implementation. To find […]
On 10 January 2020, Amnesty International, The Refugee Council and Save the Children published this report (shorter briefing available here) which focuses on the impact of family separation on child refugees in the UK. Based on in-depth interviews with children and young people, the research reveals how the UK Government’s current family reunion policy harms child refugees and directly […]
The Strategic Legal Fund recently awarded one grant. Commons Legal CIC was awarded further funds following preliminary and secondary research for litigation preparation into the implementation of the requirement for defendants in criminal proceedings to provide their nationality to the courts. Failure to provide this information is a criminal offence, regardless of whether immigration status has any […]
In December 2019, the High Court ruled that the £1,012 fee the Home Office charges children to register as a British citizen was unlawful. The case was brought by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC) and two children (aged 3 and 13) born in the UK. The court found that the […]
The Strategic Legal Fund recently awarded one grant. The Child Poverty Action Group has been awarded funds to develop a challenge to what the Government say is a change in child tax credit eligibility introduced by Universal Credit, leading to refugee families with children being excluded from claiming Tax Credit for the retrospective period prior to […]