In a House of Commons debate last week, Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart said that although the Government was doing "quite a bit", it must do more.
Proposals to base social work teams at major ports of entry to the UK were still being developed, as was the training of immigration officers on how to judge whether unaccompanied minors might be at risk, she said.
Both were recommendations following Operation Paladin Child, a three-month exercise at Heathrow airport to find out what happened to unaccompanied children from non-EU countries (Children Now, 19-25 May).
Mactaggart said the Home Office was still examining the recommendations and could not pre-announce its final decisions.
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