Unaccompanied children in care & care-leavers

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium welcomes aspects of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (BSAIB), particularly the repeal of child detention powers, the Home Office accommodation powers over unaccompanied children, the Safety of Rwanda Act 2024, and other significant portions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 (IMA). While we support the repeal of […]

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium gave a submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the care and human rights of refugee and migrant children in the United Kingdom. The submission was in response to the OHCHR study pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 54/6 on the centrality […]

RMCC members are profoundly concerned by the Illegal Migration Bill which is designed to deny refugees the chance to seek protection. We agree with the UN Refugee Agency that the Bill undermines the very purpose of the Refugee Convention. It risks breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The government has not […]

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium welcomed the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, and fed into the Review to highlight the specific needs of migrant and refugee children in the care system. The Review did not comment extensively on the experiences of migrant children receiving support from children’s social care but these young people […]

Submissions to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, 2021 and 2022 Every child in the care system deserves equal treatment and equal protection. This is true no matter how that child came to be in care, no matter whether they have a disability or not, and no matter where they are from. The fact […]

In this submission to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee inquiry into the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the UK and Rwanda for the provision of an Asylum Partnership Arrangement, the RMCC raises concerns about the possible impact of the proposals on children whose ages have been disputed and the lack of safeguards in […]

Briefings on the Nationality and Borders Bill, 2021 and 2022   The RMCC provided broad evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights for its legislative scrutiny of the Nationality and Borders Bill but as the Bill made its way through the Lords, the coalition focussed mainly on the part of the Bill that focussed […]

Young asylum seekers and unregulated accommodationJune 2020 The RMCC response to the Department for Education consultation on ‘Reforms to unregulated provision for children in care and care leavers’ The Department for Education recognises that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children form a significant part of the ‘growing’ number of children being placed in independent and semi-independent settings, which […]

Briefing on the National Transfer Scheme, August 2017 You can download a print-friendly version of this briefing here. Background Launched on the 1st July 2016 by the Home Office and Department for Education, the National Transfer Scheme was described as a ‘new voluntary transfer arrangement between local authorities for the care of unaccompanied children who […]

The Children and Social Work Bill was debated by Parliament in 2016-17. RMCC briefings on the Bill included the following: a proposed amendment on care planning for the permanence and stability of migrant and asylum-seeking children in care a briefing on the impact of changes to leaving care provisions on former asylum-seeking young people.