The National Register of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, which was launched this week, will go live in a limited version in January in a bid to keep track of the movement of children and young people who enter the UK without their parents.
The full version of the register, which is backed by the Home Office, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Association of Directors of Social Services, the Association of London Government and the Local Government Association, is scheduled to roll out across the country from March 2005.
In 2003 almost 3,200 unaccompanied children applied for asylum in the UK, 51 per cent fewer than in 2002. The Home Office's latest asylum statistics, released last week, showed that there were 585 asylum applications made by unaccompanied children from July to September 2004.
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