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

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

Kids in Need of Defense UK

Research estimates that there are over 120,000 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

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

Latest

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Full time 37 hours a week, Up to £26,396 per annum based in Coventry or Birmingham

Getting creative during COVID: linking with schools

CELC works with schools during lockdown across the West Midlands to help migrants access their legal rights.

Council Tax Support - Birmingham

COVID-19 Council Tax Hardship Payments

New Toolkit launched to help students with humanitarian protection access home fees and student finance

A practical guide for students in England who have been granted humanitarian protection [HP] and who want to go to university.

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Who we help

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

Work for us

Join our team and be part of a cutting edge team using the law to fight social exclusion in society.

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

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

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

Asylum and Immigration Law

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

Funding

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

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.

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.