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Children left out? Securing children’s rights to stay in the UK beyond Brexit
- Authors:
- LAGRUE Marianne, BOURTHOUMIEUX Charles, LAYONU Joyinola
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- London
With one year left before the close of the EU settlement scheme on 30 June 2021, this report looks at what the UK needs to do to make sure no eligible child living in the UK is left without status. With more than 900,000 eligible EEA citizen children thought to have been living in the UK in 2017, only 412,820 children had been granted status under settlement scheme by 31 March 2020. Of these, there are an estimated 9000 children and young people in the care system who were eligible, but UK local authorities – with a duty of care to these vulnerable children – have secured status for fewer than 500 according to one estimate. The report makes a number of key recommendations for the Home Office, local authorities and wider government. These include: scrapping the prohibitively expensive £1012 citizenship fee currently charged to children, which prevents many children from accessing their rights; government, local authorities and civil society to work together to identify and support every single child and young person as a matter of urgency; extending the deadline to the settlement scheme to ensure complex cases can be dealt with; ensuring that children and young people eligible under the EU settlement scheme who do not apply in time are not brought under existing long and expensive routes in the immigration system. The report also makes recommendations for changes to the scheme that would help the children, young people and families who are currently struggling. This includes care leavers, children and young adults in custody, children and other family members from outside the EEA, and children in single-parent families. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child first: looking after unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Wales. A best practice guide for social workers in Wales supporting unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 29
- Place of publication:
- Swansea
A guide providing advice for social workers providing support for young people seeking asylum without their family. It includes advice on for social workers on supporting young people through the age assessment and immigration processes; safeguarding the young person; determining a suitable placement; ensuring appropriate health and wellbeing support; securing education; language support; and pathway planning for someone who may not be able to stay in the UK. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child first: looking after unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Wales. Information for foster carers about fostering unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Wales
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 19
- Place of publication:
- Swansea
Advice for foster carers in Wales on what to expect when fostering children who are seeking asylum. It includes answers to frequently asked questions; information about the legal and immigration and asylum process; and links to additional resources. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child first: a guide to being looked after for unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 2
- Place of publication:
- Swansea
Information leaflet for children and young people who are under 18 years-old seeking asylum in Wales without their family. It provides information about 'being looked after' and outlines what they can expect from the local authority. It is one of a series of three guides designed to help unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Wales. (Edited publisher abstract)
'This is my home': securing permanent status for long-term resident children and young people in the UK
- Author:
- DORLING Kamena
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
This report outlines the barriers to securing permanent status facing long-term resident children and young people who are currently undocumented or have temporary permission to remain in the UK. These include: complex law and policy; lack of awareness and understanding; lack of free, quality legal representation; high application fees. Recommendations include; a shorter route to permanent status for long-resident children and young people with lower application fees; better information for social workers; and improved local authority practice through training and designated social care leads. (Edited publisher abstract)
Unaccompanied children and parental responsibility
- Author:
- CORAM CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 2
- Place of publication:
- London
This fact sheet provides some basic information about the situation faced by unaccompanied children who have no one in the UK exercising parental responsibility for them. It outlines the circumstances in which an unaccompanied child may be placed under a care order so that social services will hold parental responsibility. Parental responsibility is defined as ‘all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property’. For unaccompanied children, including those who are seeking asylum, there is usually no one in the UK who has parental responsibility for the child. These unaccompanied children will be looked after by the local authority and they will be accommodated under section 20 of the Children Act 1989; children’s services owe the same duties to them as to other children in care, but children’s services do not have parental responsibility for them. Children’s services should seek a care order for an unaccompanied child, and acquire parental responsibility, if the child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm. This may be the appropriate course of action particularly in cases where an unaccompanied child is a victim of trafficking and is at risk from traffickers, where there are capacity issues, an in cases of younger children and those with significant vulnerabilities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Always migrants sometimes children
- Author:
- FINCH Nadine
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 60
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
This UK report is part of the EU funded CONNECT project and considers the roles and responsibilities of staff in a range of agencies, and the ways in which they work together, to respond to the situation of unaccompanied children of third country origin in the UK. It also identifies good practice and areas for improvement. In particular the report then focuses on how agencies respond to three issues: identifying and responding to situations of extra vulnerability, including trafficking or trauma; prevention and responding to disappearance of children from care; and informing status protection procedures. The report draws on a study of the existing literature (including reports addressing the views of children) and interviews with key stakeholders. The report pays tribute to multi-agency safeguarding hubs that bring together children’s services, the police, education and health services and civil society to tackle the issue of children going missing, recommending further development of this collaborative effort. The report also calls for all those involved in the child protection and immigration control systems to be trained and provided with the mandate to identify and, ideally, protect these children, and to improve the support provided within the legal system. (Edited publisher abstract)
Standards to ensure that unaccompanied migrant children are able to fully participate: a tool to assist actors in legal and judicial proceedings
- Author:
- FINCH Nadine
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
These standards are designed to alert different actors in legal and judicial proceedings to relevant obligations which arise from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and EU law and to ensure that unaccompanied migrant children benefit from the rights which derive from these legal instruments. They also provide examples and practical suggestions as to how agencies and professionals can work together collectively to meet their obligations. The standards cover each phase and aspect of the legal and judicial proceedings, including: appointment of independent legal guardians; appointment of lawyers; provision of interpreters; provision of cultural mediators; social workers; the police and the prosecution services; the immigration service; the interviewing of a child; information sharing; expert evidence; and professional training, accreditation and supervision. The document also sets out the three overarching principles which underpin the standards. These are: the best interests of each unaccompanied migrant child should be a primary consideration at each stage of legal and judicial proceedings; an unaccompanied migrant child should be provided with the necessary information, representation and assistance to be able to participate in any legal and/or judicial proceedings in a meaningful way; and no actor should discriminate against an unaccompanied migrant child in any legal or judicial proceedings on the basis of race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability or on account of any special educational needs. (Edited publisher abstract)
Growing up in a hostile environment: the rights of undocumented migrant children in the UK
- Author:
- DORLING Kamena
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 64
- Place of publication:
- London
The Migrant Children’s Project at Coram Children’s Legal Centre provides information and guidance to practitioners on the rights and entitlements of refugee and migrant children and young people. This report examines the ways in which lack of immigration status is an obstacle to children and young people accessing their basic rights and entitlements and the further difficulties this group face in obtaining essential legal advice and regularising their status. Case study examples include problems with asylum support, local authority support, and difficulties in accessing private rented housing, education, and healthcare; also. difficulties in gaining legal advice and representation in order to regularising immigration status. Undocumented migrant children are amongst the most vulnerable in the UK and the most at risk of exceptional poverty and destitution. While the importance of developing a more effective immigration system cannot be denied, such a system must go hand in hand with the UK’s human rights obligations to children. The author recommends that undocumented migrant children must be treated as children first and foremost, and must be afforded the same rights and protection as any other children in the UK. Migrant children and young people must have access to support and services adequate for their physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development. (Edited publisher abstract)
Growing up in a hostile environment: the rights of undocumented migrant children in the UK: executive summary
- Author:
- CORAM CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Coram Children's Legal Centre
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
The Migrant Children’s Project at Coram Children’s Legal Centre provides information and guidance to practitioners on the rights and entitlements of refugee and migrant children and young people. This summary report examines the ways in which lack of immigration status is an obstacle to children and young people accessing their basic rights and entitlements to appropriate education, healthcare and support, and the difficulties this group face in obtaining essential legal advice and regularising their status. At the same time, they are often unable to either return to their (or their parent/s’) country of origin, or to take the necessary steps to regularise their status, even when they have strong claims for remaining in the UK (Edited publisher abstract)