Closing date: 31 May 2007
What's in it?
This consultation paper seeks to reform the current process for young asylum seekers who arrive in Britain without a family to accompany them.
Plans include
X-raying teeth, collars and wrist-bones to determine if a young person is under 18 on arrival, moving young asylum seekers from foster care to a shared housing scheme at age 16 or 17 and transfering large numbers from London and the South East to other parts of the country.
What people say about it:
"As a whole, it is one of the worst things I've seen from this Government. The proposal to end foster care at 16 is completely the opposite to plans in Care Matters, which calls for care-leavers to stay with foster parents until 18." Lisa Nandy, policy adviser for the Children's Society.
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