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Nationality and Borders Bill endangers vulnerable children, warn campaigners

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.

Rise in child refugees sparks calls for mandatory transfer scheme

Analysis

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| CYP Now

Amid a rise in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children coming to the UK, council chiefs in Kent say voluntary national support scheme has failed and call for it to be made compulsory to share pressures around the country.

Immigration status and Brexit

Analysis

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

| CYP Now

Expert says councils must take measures to ensure children in care have leave to remain from 2021.

Interview: Helen Johnson – Refugee Council’s head of children’s services

Features

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes speaks to the Refugee Council’s head of children’s services on post-Brexit support for unaccompanied children.

Podcast documents young person’s fight to clarify immigration status

Best Practice

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Rights-based charity helped a young person it was supporting to produce a podcast about his fight to remain in the UK and resolve his immigration status.

Let’s put our minds to solving refugee crisis

Opinion

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Recent research stated that 100,000 children are in London without secure immigration status, yet, last month, MPs voted to drop child refugee protections from the Brexit Bill.

Four in 10 councils 'unwilling to take child refugees from other areas'

News

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| CYP Now

Around 40 per cent of councils across England have not signed up to a voluntary scheme to take child refugees from other areas, amid concerns that central government is not providing enough funding to cover the true cost, a report has revealed.

Ofsted praises council for work with child refugees and care leavers

News

Friday, March 9, 2018

| CYP Now

Inspectors have praised a council for the quality of support it offers care leavers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Child refugee scheme set for UK-wide expansion

News

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.

Asylum-seeking children funding rates set for review

News

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

| CYP Now

The amount of money councils receive from central government to cover the cost of looking after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children will be reviewed, it has been announced.

Lone migrant children hit by Legal Aid cuts

News

Thursday, August 17, 2017

| CYP Now

Unaccompanied migrant children are struggling to access justice thanks to a double-whammy of Legal Aid cuts and rising Home Office fees, analysis shows.

Council quits child refugee scheme over funding shortfall

News

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

| CYP Now

A council has become the latest local authority to pull out of a voluntary scheme to take in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) from other areas, blaming a lack of government funding for its decision.

Concerns raised over welfare of undocumented children

News

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

| CYP Now

Concerns have been raised about the welfare of tens of thousands of children and young people whose legal right to remain in the UK is uncertain.

Child trafficking advocate scheme faces further delays

News

Thursday, February 2, 2017

| CYP Now

An initiative designed to support vulnerable child trafficking victims is unlikely to launch until 2019 at the earliest, more than four years behind schedule, it has been claimed.

Council may quit refugee scheme over £3.6m funding gap

News

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

| CYP Now

A council is considering pulling out of a voluntary scheme for dispersing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children because government funding is £3.6m short of the predicted annual cost.

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Nationality and Borders Bill endangers vulnerable children, warn campaigners

Rise in child refugees sparks calls for mandatory transfer scheme

Immigration status and Brexit

Interview: Helen Johnson – Refugee Council’s head of children’s services

Podcast documents young person’s fight to clarify immigration status

Let’s put our minds to solving refugee crisis

Four in 10 councils 'unwilling to take child refugees from other areas'

Ofsted praises council for work with child refugees and care leavers

Child refugee scheme set for UK-wide expansion

Asylum-seeking children funding rates set for review

Lone migrant children hit by Legal Aid cuts

Council quits child refugee scheme over funding shortfall

Concerns raised over welfare of undocumented children

Child trafficking advocate scheme faces further delays

Council may quit refugee scheme over £3.6m funding gap

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