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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.

Legal Update: Visitor and migrant NHS charging

Plans to extend the charging of overseas visitors and migrants for NHS healthcare have implications for the welfare of migrant children, says Gargie Ahmad, intern at Coram Children's Legal Centre.

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.