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**Contract: Fixed-term until 31st March 2025**

**Hours: 35 hours a week**

**Salary: £21,840 per annum**

**Location: Wellington House, Colchester**

**About Coram**

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

**About CCLC**

Coram Children’s Legal Centre, part of the Coram group of charities, is dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of children and young people through legal advice, information and practice. Staffed by lawyers and professionals with experience in child law, the Centre provides free legal information, advice and representation to children, young people, their families, carers and professionals, as well as international consultancy on child law and children’s rights.

Coram Children’s Legal Centre has been operating as a specialist children’s legal service from its bases in Colchester and London for thirty years and became part of the Coram group in 2011.

The Child Law Advice Service is a digital first, Family Support Service, funded by The Department for Education. The service aims to provide legal information and advice to parents, carers and young people each year. This is provided via a range of mediums including free downloadable resources on our website, and one to one legal advice with a legally trained specialist via the telephone

**About the role**

There is an opportunity of progression within the Coram Group. The Coram Group contains a Legal Practice, Communications department and Policy and information. Please visit the website for more information.

After training is complete, we offer a hybrid working option.

**Closing date: Monday 1st January 2024 at 23:59**

**Interview date: TBC**
- We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service._
- Registered Charity No. 312278._