CYP Now has learned the guidance was issued to immigration workers dealing with unaccompanied asylum-seeker children on 26 March. But the Children's Legal Centre is concerned that no-one outside the UK Border Agency has seen the guidance, so it is not known whether full research is being undertaken into child protection arrangements in their home country.
Kamena Dorling, researcher for the Children's Legal Centre, requested to see the guidance under the Freedom of Information Act, but was refused.
She said the refusal to make the guidance public means no-one knows what criteria are being used to decide when children who have been refused asylum, humanitarian protection or discretionary leave are sent back or if child protection procedures are being taken into account.
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