Legal aid
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) removed legal aid for matters including immigration, nationality and EU issues. This had a negative impact on many children in the UK, as well as separated children in care who were not unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC).
However, in July 2018, the government announced that legal aid would be brought back into scope for "immigration matters". As of August 2019, this has yet to be enacted and is currently going through parliamentary procedure. It is expected that it will come into force around September/October 2019, but this may be subject to change.
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