The Refugee & Migrant Children’s Consortium, a collective of non-governmental organisations working to uphold the rights and needs of young refugees and migrants, says every child in the care system deserves equal treatment and protection regardless of how they came to be looked after.
It urges the independent review of children’s social care to challenge what it claims is the government’s “increasing refusal” to protect the rights of non-British children and young people under legislation, policy and practice relating to children in care.
Unless the specific needs of non-British children and young people are included in the review’s recommendations - and in turn the government’s subsequent Care Review implementation plans - the process will “fail some of the most vulnerable children in the system today”, it says.
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