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Address:
The Children's Legal Centre University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
C04 3SQ (Multimap)

Opening times:

Monday 9.30am-5.00pm

Tuesday 9.30am-5.00pm

Wednesday 9.30am-5.00pm

Thursday 9.30am-5.00pm

Friday 9.30am-5.00pm

Telephone: National Education Line - 0845 345 4345 Young People - 0800 783 2187 Child Law Advice Line - 0845 120 2948 Family Law Advice - 0845 345 4345

Fax: 01206 874 026

Website: http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com

Email: clc@essex.ac.uk

Ages services offered to: 2 – 19

Contact person: Wendy Bailey

Type of organisation: Charity/Community

Type of delivery point: Advice/Information Point; Advocacy service; Legal Service

Aims: The Children's Legal Centre is a unique, independent national charity concerned with law and policy affecting children and young people. The CLC is staffed by legal specialists committed to protecting children

Waiting list: No

Areas of support offered

Education and Training: Early Education; Education allowances; Exams; Exclusion; Learning choices

Relationships and Emotions: Mental health

Money Matters: Education allowances

Families: Adoption; Being in care; Care leavers; Child care; Family support; Fostering; Lone Parent Families; Multiple births; Parenting; Play; Step families; Teenage parenting; Under 5's; Young carers; Lesbian & Gay Parenting; Pregnancy

Keeping Safe: Abuse; Accident Prevention; Bullying; Child Protection; Domestic Abuse; Running away; Self harm

Minority Issues: African; Asylum and immigration; Bangladeshi; Caribbean; Chinese; Indian; Irish; Language not English; Other; Pakistani; Travelling communities; Other faith groups; Somali

Homes and Housing: Homelessness; Leaving home

Disability, Special Needs and Additional Needs: Dyslexia and perceptual difficulties; Learning Disability; Sight Impairments; Speech and Communication Impairments; Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

Crime and Offending: Courts

The Law: Legal aid; Legal/consumer issues; Legal rights; Youth justice

Equal Opportunities: Disability

Geographical Areas Covered

The whole of England: Yes

The South West Region: No

Locally (Bath and NE Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire): No

Bath & North East Somerset: The whole of the area

Bristol: The whole of the area

South Gloucestershire: The whole of the area

Disability and Access Issues

Bus stops nearby: No

Car park nearby: No

Parking for disabled drivers: No

Pedestrian route: No

Automatic external doors: No
Will doors easily open from a wheelchair: No

Glass doors clearly marked at the centre for safety: No

Doors 900mm or more wide, with flat thresholds: No

Doors light and non sprung: No

External ramps: No

External steps: No

Lobby/porch area: No

Interior of premises bright and well lit: No

Interior automatic doors: No
Wide doors: No
Wheelchair friendly doors: No

Door frames and handles clearly visible: No

Wide unobstructed corridors (min 1200mm): No

Lift for Wheelchair users: No

Internal ramps: No

Internal steps: No

Visual fire alarm: No

Floor contrast colouring for entrances and exits: No

Able to provide on request individuals who can:
– offer general assistance: No
– assist visually impaired people: No
– sign in BSL and/or MAKATON: No
– do lip speaking: No

Loop system for hearing aid users: No

Public telephone: No

Inductive coupler for hearing aid users: No

Provide pamphlets/leaflets: No

Provision for assistance dogs: No

Toilets that disabled people can access: No

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