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Asylum reforms are a gamble with young lives

    Opinion
  • Thursday, May 25, 2023
  • | CYP Now
At The Children's Society, we’re not just advocates. We’re a shield, a beacon, and a voice for children and young people needing safety and protection. That's why the government's asylum proposals are furiously ringing our alarm bells.

Legal Update: Illegal Migration Bill

Marianne Lagrue, policy and programmes manager in the Migrant Children's Project at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses the Illegal Migration Bill's impact on children and agencies.

Legal Update: Review of Ukraine schemes

With Homes for Ukraine and other schemes to support Ukrainians having been running for a year, Alison East, senior solicitor at Coram Children's Legal Centre, assesses their successes.

Legal Update: Migrant looked-after children

With one in 10 children in care being non-British, local authorities need to do more to identify and address their needs, says Marianne Lagrue, policy manager at Coram Children’s Legal Centre.

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.