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Fears raised over treatment of asylum-seeking children

    News
  • Monday, January 16, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Asylum-seeking children have been routinely sent back to France within 24 hours under a "gentlemen's agreement", contrary to the requirement to safeguard their welfare, a report by the children's commissioner for England has revealed.

Kent in talks to outsource children's social care

    News
  • 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.

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.

Legal Update: Migrant children's citizenship

    Other
  • Tuesday, May 24, 2016
    • | CYP Now
Social services need to consider the immigration status of migrant children taken into care. Stewart MacLachlan, legal and policy officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explores the option of applying for British citizenship.

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: Undocumented children lose out

    Other
  • Wednesday, November 13, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The government's policy of creating a "hostile environment" for migrants is having a damaging impact on children, argues Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

Rescued from trafficking

    Other
  • 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

    Other
  • 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.

National Transfer Scheme becomes compulsory

    News
  • Tuesday, November 23, 2021
    • | CYP Now
The Home Office has announced temporary plans to make the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) compulsory, meaning councils must take asylum-seeking children into their care.

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