Some older asylum-seeking children are currently involved in lengthy disputes over whether they are entitled to be supported as young people or treated as adults by services
Home Secretary Priti Patel says that the Nationality and Borders Bill, which has passed its House of Commons stages and is being debated in the House of Lords this week, will look to overhaul the way older children are assessed.
Patel says the focus of the move is to crackdown on abuses by adults, who she says are falsely claiming to be adults to access children’s and education services.
“The practice of single grown adult men, masquerading as children claiming asylum is an appalling abuse of our system which we will end,” said Patel.
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