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

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Safeplace - contact us

You can refer yourself or someone you are working with to the Safeplace, our rights for victims of domestic violence service, by calling the dedicated telephone line on 07415623628 between 09:00am and 5:00pm Monday to Friday or filling out the referral form available here and emailing it to [email protected]

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Debt Advice and Whitefriars Housing

A large proportion of our debt advice service is delivered in partnership with and funded by Whitefriars Housing, the largest provider of social housing in Coventry. We help around 250 of their customers each year, where their debts have reached a stage that their tenancy is threatened.

Who we help

We provide free legal advice to those most in need and use legal processes to fight social exclusion.

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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.

Work for us

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

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.

Funding

The work we do is only possible because of the support we receive from 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.