Continuous child detention in UK

Date: 1st October 2013
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Recent figures published by the UK Home Office suggest that children in the decision and removal phase of the asylum process are increasingly being detained in the UK.

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Unaccompanied migrant children in the UK: in their best interests?

Date: 12th June 2013
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) haspublished a Report on the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children in the United Kingdom.

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Ground-breaking Scottish Guardianship Service a model for others

Date: 26th April 2013
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Scottish Guardianship Service, delivered in partnership between Aberlour Childcare Trust and Scottish Refugee Council, has helped to support more than 100 unaccompanied young people going through the asylum system, some of who are victims of trafficking.

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Joint Committee questions Children’s Commissioners

Date: 11th December 2012
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Joint Committee on Human Rights launched an inquiry into the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK, with a particular focus on those who are seeking asylum or have been the victims of trafficking.

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New Measures to Tackle Human Trafficking

Date: 18th October 2012
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

A new statutory aggravation is to be introduced to make the perpetrators of human trafficking easier to prosecute, the Scottish Government announced

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Border Agency suspends asylum X-ray pilot

Date: 7th May 2012
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has halted plans to pilot a scheme to use dental X-rays to determine the age of children seeking asylum where this is disputed, after it emerged that ethical approval should have been sought.

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X-ray pilot for child asylum-seekers sparks outrage

Date: 2nd April 2012
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The United Kingdom's four children's commissioners have slammed a Home Office pilot scheme to use dental X-rays to determine the age of asylum-seeking children.

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Landmark human rights ruling allows asylum mother to remain in UK

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Supreme court says deporting woman who lied on asylum application would infringe rights of her British children. Immigration authorities will have to listen to the views of children whose parents are facing deportation, the supreme court has said, in a landmark human rights ruling on the rights of children born to illegal immigrants.

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Future of the European ‘Youth in Action’ Programme

Date: 29th October 2010
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children, Respect for the views of the child, Non-discrimination, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The current European Commission youth programme - "Youth in Action" - will run until the end of 2013. An online public consultation has just been launched to collect views on how to best develop a future programme so as to ensure an adequate response to youth needs, challenges and expectations.

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Child asylum-seekers targeted in Home Office budget cuts

Date: 11th October 2010
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Thousands of child asylum-seekers are to be removed from Britain under savage budget cuts being drawn up by the Home Office ahead of this week's comprehensive spending review.

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