He called for more to be done to enable the under-18 age group to be treated as children first and refugees second.
A strategy document, entitled Offering more than they borrow: refugee children in London, recommends that the Greater London Council extends its monitoring of refugee and asylum populations.
The strategy document highlights a range of problems facing young refugees in the capital.
A lack of accommodation for unaccompanied 16- to 17-year-olds, leading to homelessness at 18, was found to be common.
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