Children are a constituency in this election only as their parents' concern; they are not recognised as citizens or service users in their own right. This is problematic for the children whose parents are unable or unwilling to be there to safeguard their child's best interests, or who face situations in which there is no real choice or opportunity. This is painfully true for refugee children who have left their homes behind to escape persecution and trauma and should have the same rights to protection and support as other children in the UK. For these children, tough manifesto policies on asylum only sound like more rejection and injustice.
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