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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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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.

Asylum plans concern councils

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Proposals risk undermining local authority responsibilities to asylum-seeking children, leaders warn.

Legal Update: Review of Ukraine schemes

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

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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.

Councils deliver support for child migrants as they adapt to UK life

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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How local authorities and agencies are helping thousands of refugee children settle in the UK and overcome barriers to accessing education and mental health support as well as responding to their care requirements.

Escaping the war in Ukraine: A new life for children in care

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

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Children in care are among those who have faced danger and disruption due to the war in Ukraine. Gabriella Józwiak reports on the evacuation of more than 50 looked-after young people to the UK.

Asylum transfer reforms prompt questions over commissioning

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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Changes to timeframes and thresholds for the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are "not enough" say local authorities struggling to find and fund suitable places for new arrivals.

Commissioning: Ukraine scheme care pressures

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

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Toni Badnall explains what councils can do to ensure they have sufficient resources to support young Ukrainian refugees.

Legal Update: Migrant looked-after children

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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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.

Young migrants will benefit from faster and affordable routes to settle in the UK, says charity

Saturday, March 19, 2022

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Children’s rights campaigners are celebrating changes to immigration rules which will make it easier and more affordable for young migrants to settle in the UK.

War in Ukraine raises child trafficking fears

Thursday, March 10, 2022

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is leaving millions of children at greater risk of trafficking and abuse, a charity has warned.

Care Day: One in 10 children in care have unresolved immigration issues, charities warn

Thursday, February 17, 2022

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At least 10 per cent of children in care and more than 10,000 young care leavers in England have unresolved immigration or citizenship issues, according to new research.

Asylum age assessments are unethical

Opinion

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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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.

High Court rules Home Office age assessment guidance ‘unlawful’

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

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A High Court judge has ruled that Home Office guidance used by social workers to carry out age assessments on young people arriving in Kent was “unlawful”.

MPs criticise scientific age-assessments for asylum-seeking children

Thursday, January 20, 2022

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The use of scientific age assessments for asylum-seeking children, in disputes over how old they are, has been described as “unethical” by MPs and peers sitting on a parliamentary human rights committee.

Sector leaders criticise ‘failing’ Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

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Sector leaders have criticised the government’s “failure” to expand its Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) and provide greater support for councils after the first family was resettled through the programme, five months after its launch.

Home Office plans 'scientific age assessments’ for asylum-seeking children

Thursday, January 6, 2022

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The government plans to bring in "new scientific methods" for assessing the age of asylum-seeking children in disputes over how old they are.

Questions on revamped national child asylum transfer scheme

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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Amid the recent surge of migrants across the Channel, the government has made compulsory a scheme to disperse unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK after some South East councils were struggling to cope.

Legal Update: Care and immigration status

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

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Aayad Lami, solicitor at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, explains what support councils should provide to non-British children in care to ensure their immigration issues are identified earlier.

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children three years behind at school, report warns

Thursday, December 2, 2021

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The majority of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are more than three years behind their non-migrant peers at school by the time they take their GCSEs, research warns.

Peer support for young migrants and refugees

Best Practice

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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Young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds are equipped with the training they need to support newly arrived peers to improve their lives in the UK.

Fully fund councils to comply with asylum transfer scheme, government told

Thursday, November 25, 2021

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Ministers are being urged to ensure councils are fully funded to meet their mandatory National Transfer Scheme (NTS) commitments to support asylum-seeking children.

National Transfer Scheme becomes compulsory

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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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.

Legal Update: Support for Afghan children

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

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Marianne Lagrue, policy manager, Coram Children’s Legal Centre, assesses what political upheaval in Afghanistan means for the support that councils should provide to looked-after children and care leavers.

Councils assemble vital support for Afghan children and families