Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

Following consultation the government have released their response and the reforms they intend to introduce.

They are:
(i) Ensuring that the Border and Immigration Agency, in exercising its functions, keeps children safe from harm while they are in the United Kingdom.
(ii) Putting in place better procedures for identifying and supporting unaccompanied asylum seeking children who are the victims of trafficking.
(iii) Locating unaccompanied asylum seeking children with specialist local authorities to ensure they receive the services they need.
(iv) Putting in place better procedures to assess age in order to ensure children and adults are not accommodated together.
(v) Resolving immigration status more quickly and, in turn, enabling care planning to focus on integration or early return to the country of origin.