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'Alarming' number of trafficked children go missing from care

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

| CYP Now

More than 750 trafficking victims and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children went missing in the space of a single year, with 40 per cent of them yet to be found, it has emerged.

Torture survivors face 'shocking' poverty levels

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

| CYP Now

Torture survivors seeking asylum in the UK, some of them young people, are experiencing "shocking" levels of poverty that hinders their recovery from trauma, research has found.

Child refugee scheme set for UK-wide expansion

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Friday, December 8, 2017

| CYP Now

A Home Office scheme that sees councils volunteer to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) from other areas is to be expanded across the UK.

Young asylum-seekers being left homeless and hungry, charity warns

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Friday, February 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children and young people are being left homeless and hungry, according to the latest report by The Children's Society.

Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Asylum support levels for children and families have left around 10,000 children in severe poverty, because payments fall "alarmingly below" mainstream benefit levels, a report by The Children's Society has found.

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

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Monday, December 16, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposed anti-slavery legislation to be published; Cameron rejects child benefit cap; and consultation launched on children's homes inspection framework, all in the news today.

Benefit policies ‘push asylum-seeking children into poverty'

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

| CYP Now

A government funding freeze on support for asylum-seeking children in the UK has been heavily criticised in a report by The Children's Society.

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

| CYP Now

The British Association of Social Work (BASW) is to take on the majority of functions performed by The College of Social Work (TCSW) from next month, it has been announced.

Government 'failing migrant children', charity claims

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Friday, August 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Thousands of migrant children entering the UK on their own are being failed by government because they are not getting long-term support, it has been claimed.

Nationality and Borders Bill endangers vulnerable children, warn campaigners

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

| CYP Now

Government plans to overhaul asylum seeker and refugee legislation will “endanger some of the most vulnerable children in our society”, charities have warned.

UK should take 3,000 more child refugees, MPs say

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

| CYP Now

The government should agree to take in an additional 3,000 child refugees from Syria who are stranded in Europe, a group of MPs has said.

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.

Families unnecessarily held at immigration removal centre, report finds

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Families and children held at an immigration removal centre could have been put up in a hotel instead, a report has found.

Cameron: resettlement of child refugees 'a priority'

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Monday, September 7, 2015

| CYP Now

The UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years, with vulnerable children and orphans being prioritised, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Council and children's services leaders are calling on the government to clarify how they will be supported to resettle 20,000 refugees, including unaccompanied children, from Syria.

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'Alarming' number of trafficked children go missing from care

Torture survivors face 'shocking' poverty levels

Child refugee scheme set for UK-wide expansion

Young asylum-seekers being left homeless and hungry, charity warns

Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line

Daily roundup: Trafficking, child benefit and children's homes

Benefit policies ‘push asylum-seeking children into poverty'

BASW to take on College of Social Work functions

Government 'failing migrant children', charity claims

Nationality and Borders Bill endangers vulnerable children, warn campaigners

UK should take 3,000 more child refugees, MPs say

Age-disputed children continue to be detained

Families unnecessarily held at immigration removal centre, report finds

Cameron: resettlement of child refugees 'a priority'

Councils call for clarity over refugee support arrangements

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