The consultation document Planning Better Outcomes and Support forUnaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, which contains the proposal, waspublished last week.
Proposals include giving asylum-seeking children over 16 independentliving arrangements, a voluntary return package and dispersing themaround the UK. But the plans were criticised.
Lisa Nandy, chair of the Refugee Children's Consortium, said: "Thesechildren are being treated as bogus asylum seekers first and childrensecond."
Sheree Kane, principal officer for children in public care at theNational Children's Bureau, added: "Children without a valid claim forasylum are still children who, without safeguards, are vulnerable toexploitation."
- www.homeoffice.gov.uk.
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