CYP Now - Looked-after children, care leavers and EUSS

Although the government has trumpeted the success of the EU Settled Status Scheme (EUSS), the programme for EU citizens to register their entitlement to stay in the UK, there are some groups that are currently falling through the net.

This blog focuses on one such group: looked-after children and care leavers. A Home Office survey indicates that only 30 per cent of this group have been able to secure status under the scheme- with only five months left in which to apply.

But in reality, no one knows who hasn’t applied for EUSS. The inherent problem in identifying those who might be more at risk in failing to secure their rights under EUSS is the absence of data on how many people need to make an application under the scheme.

That said, we do have information on both the age range and nationality of those who have already applied. And we know that there have been 578,830 EUSS applications from those aged under 18 (14% of total applications).

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