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“I’ve Suffocated”

27th September 2017 By Dave

‘I’ve Suffocated’. Reflections from Eve Phillips, our Children’s Support Worker For many of the children we work with, whole childhoods have been spent waiting to be granted leave to remain with recourse to public funds. Often these are children who have been born in the UK and who have never… Read More

Filed Under: Asylum, Government, Immigration Tagged With: children, discrimination, local authority, poverty, section 17

Unaccompanied refugee children: the rights and the wrongs

19th October 2016 By Dave

Over the past few days, it has been difficult to miss the media coverage of the arrival of 14 of the 387 unaccompanied refugee children living in the Calais jungle and identified as having a legal right to join family members in the UK. Amidst expressions of welcome and empathy,… Read More

Filed Under: Asylum, Case Studies, Government, Immigration Tagged With: education, home office, legal rights, local authority, media, non-British

Policy matters

4th May 2016 By Dave

Way back in July 2014, a migrant family denied recourse to public funds initiated a legal challenge against the London Borough of Newham, which had acknowledged a statutory duty towards the family under section 17 of the Children Act 1989. At that time, Newham was paying this family- consisting of… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Government, Immigration Tagged With: children, home office, legal aid, legal rights, local authority

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