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Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

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  • Wednesday, December 2, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kent County Council is holding discussions about the possibility of outsourcing elements of its children's social care work in order to help deal with an influx of asylum-seeking children, it has emerged.

Rescued from trafficking

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  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Victims of child trafficking are gaining help to overcome their trauma and build a future for themselves at a London youth group run by the charity Ecpat UK. Jo Stephenson visits the group to see it in action

Legal Update: Ending age-disputed detention

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  • Tuesday, March 17, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre's Migrant Children's Project, examines the findings of a recent inquiry on immigration detention.

Age-disputed children continue to be detained

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  • Tuesday, July 30, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Children are continuing to be held at Yarl's Wood and other adult immigration detention centres more than two years after the coalition government announced detention of under-18s would stop, latest statistics have shown.

Vulnerable, alone and in need of our protection

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  • Tuesday, February 18, 2014
  • | CYP Now
We are all aware of how difficult it is to navigate the systems of another country - you only have to go on holiday and lose your purse to know this. Even getting to the nearest police station and reporting the loss can be difficult, never mind finding an overall solution to the problem. Can you imagine then how an 11-year-old child arriving into the UK alone might feel? Or how a 17-year-old feels when they have no "official papers"? What if English isn't your first language and you don't understand what you are being asked at all?

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