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War in Ukraine raises child trafficking fears

Thursday, March 10, 2022

| CYP Now

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is leaving millions of children at greater risk of trafficking and abuse, a charity has warned.

Care Day: One in 10 children in care have unresolved immigration issues, charities warn

News

Thursday, February 17, 2022

| CYP Now

At least 10 per cent of children in care and more than 10,000 young care leavers in England have unresolved immigration or citizenship issues, according to new research.

Asylum age assessments are unethical

Opinion

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| CYP Now

The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions that predatory men are abusing the system by pretending to be children, and talk of new “scientific” methods of determining age.

High Court rules Home Office age assessment guidance ‘unlawful’

News

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

| CYP Now

A High Court judge has ruled that Home Office guidance used by social workers to carry out age assessments on young people arriving in Kent was “unlawful”.

MPs criticise scientific age-assessments for asylum-seeking children

News

Thursday, January 20, 2022

| CYP Now

The use of scientific age assessments for asylum-seeking children, in disputes over how old they are, has been described as “unethical” by MPs and peers sitting on a parliamentary human rights committee.

Sector leaders criticise ‘failing’ Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme

News

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

| CYP Now

Sector leaders have criticised the government’s “failure” to expand its Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) and provide greater support for councils after the first family was resettled through the programme, five months after its launch.

Home Office plans 'scientific age assessments’ for asylum-seeking children

News

Thursday, January 6, 2022

| CYP Now

The government plans to bring in "new scientific methods" for assessing the age of asylum-seeking children in disputes over how old they are.

Questions on revamped national child asylum transfer scheme

Analysis

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

| CYP Now

Amid the recent surge of migrants across the Channel, the government has made compulsory a scheme to disperse unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK after some South East councils were struggling to cope.

Legal Update: Care and immigration status

Features

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

| CYP Now

Aayad Lami, solicitor at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, explains what support councils should provide to non-British children in care to ensure their immigration issues are identified earlier.

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children three years behind at school, report warns

News

Thursday, December 2, 2021

| CYP Now

The majority of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are more than three years behind their non-migrant peers at school by the time they take their GCSEs, research warns.

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