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 […]
Asylum and Immigration
RCC response to the Department for Education draft statutory guidance for local authorities: Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery. You can download a print-friendly copy of this consultation response here. The Refugee Children’s Consortium (RCC) is a group of NGOs working collaboratively to ensure that the […]
Department for Education draft statutory guidance for local authorities
We welcome the opportunity to inform the 2017 review of the level of asylum support cash allowance. A print-friendly copy of this submission can be downloaded here. Our comments relate to the 2016 Home Office report on review of cash allowance paid to asylum seekers. Comments are in two parts: […]
Home Office asylum support review 2017
There are approximately 10,000 unaccompanied asylum seeking children across Europe. Those children in the UK are not, unlike adult refugees, allowed to be reunited with their families here.
Refugee Family Reunion: briefing for Westminster Hall debate
Coverage this week by some national newspapers about the transfer of young people from Calais to the UK has been inflammatory, inhumane and may actually put children at risk of harm.
RCC statement on media coverage of children from Calais
The RCC welcomes the shift in public attitudes towards the refugee crisis and the compassion and generosity displayed by the UK public. It is right that the government has finally pledged to recognise the country’s moral responsibility and accept 20,000 more Syrian refugees over the next 5 years through the existing Syrian […]