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  1. The difference we make
  2. Helping children thrive

Helping children thrive

Much of our work involves children and families.

  • Representation for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.
  • Advice and representation for families where children are being taken into care.
  • Legal action to stop domestic violence.
  • Advice for families affected by welfare reform.
  • Helping families get the care and support they need where their children are disabled or have a long term condition.

Some of our programmes and projects are designed specifically to help children:

Advice for Families

Advice for Families

Since 2015, we have supported over 600 of the most vulnerable families in Coventry with legal advice through this project. It has demonstrated that specialist legal advice resolves problems for parents enabling them to provide a stable home for their family. Read more

Published: 16th October, 2018

Updated: 11th September, 2019

Author: Claire Stern

Related topics:
  • Helping children thrive
Kids in Need of Defense UK

Kids in Need of Defense UK

Research estimates that there are over 215,000 undocumented children in the UK. Undocumented children are vulnerable to poverty, social exclusion and exploitation. As many as half of them have an entitlement to British citizenship. Read more

Published: 10th January, 2018

Updated: 4th December, 2020

Author:

Related topics:
  • Migrants
  • Helping children thrive
  • Migrants' Rights
Mother and Child Project

Mother and Child Project

Upholding the legal rights of pregnant women and young mothers who are or have been in the care system. Download free resources and access short tutorials on the legal framework for the support and protection of vulnerable children and care leavers. Read more

Published: 24th January, 2019

Updated: 3rd December, 2020

Author: Claire Stern

Related topics:
  • Building legal capability
  • Building legal knowledge
  • Helping children thrive
  • Women's empowerment
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  • Who we help

    Who we help

    All of our services are free. We prioritise people who would not otherwise be able to access legal advice and representation.

  • Volunteer

    Volunteer

    The Law Centre is a resource for the whole community and we rely on our amazing team of volunteers help us reach more people with our services.

  • Our Vision

    Our Vision

    We want to live in a society where people’s rights are upheld, their needs met and they are enabled to thrive. We are the largest Law Centre in the UK. We provide free specialist legal advice to people across central England.

  • Child and Family Law

    Child and Family Law

    Following the breakdown of a relationship, we provide advice and representation on all aspects of family and childcare law.

  • Asylum and Immigration Law

    Asylum and Immigration Law

    Legal advice and representation to people seeking to regularise their immigration status.

  • Funding

    Funding

    All our services are free funded by a wide range of partners and supporters.

  • Our history

    Our history

    The national Law Centre movement was started in the 1970s by radical lawyers who were disappointed in the failure of the welfare state to eradicate poverty and deliver a more equal society. Coventry Law Centre was founded in 1976 by four Councillors: Tom McLatchie, Gilbert Richards, Arthur Waugh Senior and Charles Ward. Coventry City Council has been a key supporter of our work ever since.

  • Housing Advice (Coventry)

    Housing Advice (Coventry)

    Housing advice, representation and advocacy at court. We assist individuals only, we do not act for landlords or mortgage lenders.

  • Our impact

    Every day we help people to know their legal rights and have them upheld. We change the lives of the people we help, and change society to make it fairer for all and more equal.

For general enquiries or to make an appointment contact us on:

Coventry: 02476 223 053 Birmingham: 0121 227 6540
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Oakwood House, St Patricks Road Entrance, Coventry, CV1 2HL

Email [email protected]

Phone 02476 223053

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