Campaigners say the Border and Immigration Agency Code of Practice for Keeping Children Safe from Harm needs to be made clearer to be effective.
Lisa Nandy, policy adviser at The Children's Society, said the guidance needs to be easy to digest in its current form, but that it fails to tell immigration staff how to protect the needs of asylum-seeking children. "This doesn't give a clear guide for staff on how to do their job," she said.
Nandy said the onus is on the UK Border Agency needs to rewrite the advice in a clearer way. "The guidance has to be short, to the point and practical. At the moment it's unusable," she warned.
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