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New guide to supporting migrant children through age assessments

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A new guide has been launched aimed at helping social workers and other professionals to better understand the impact of age assessments on asylum-seeking children.
Former unaccompanied children advise others to keep busy by playing sports. Picture: GMIAU
Former unaccompanied children advise others to keep busy by playing sports. Picture: GMIAU

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) has produced a document for social workers, interpreters and those acting as appropriate adults written by former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) who have been through the age assessment process.

Nine young people who are part of GMIAU’s All4One programme which supports asylum seeking young people living in Manchester helped to create the guides for adults working with their peers.

Laura Gibbons, the unit's public law solicitor, said: “The young people involved were also very keen for the adults and various professionals involved in the age assessment process to understand what it was like for them, how it made them feel to be disbelieved and, if an age assessment has to happen, how it could have been done better.

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