Warnings that vulnerable child migrants at risk after ‘flawed’ age assessments
by Jonathan Bunn
Jan 22, 2024
4 minutes
Many traumatised child refugees are being put at risk of abuse after being wrongly assessed as adults on their arrival in the UK, campaigners have said.
Flaws in the Home Office’s approach to determining the age of new arrivals led to at least 1,300 refugee children being placed in unsupervised adult accommodation or detention between January 2022 and June 2023, according to new research.
A joint report by the Refugee Council, the Helen Bamber Foundation and Humans for Rights Network, said the Government’s move to make the asylum system more punitive in recent years has resulted in vulnerable young people being excluded from child protection and welfare frameworks.
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