极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: ‘Deeply worrying’ age assessment changes will increase risks to child asylum seekers, warn charities

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Phil Sanderson

Phil Sanderson — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 15:49:50 +0000

The whole intention of the Tories here is to demonise refugees and create more division. The UK takes a pitifully low number of refugees compared to other European countries and the vast number of Refugees are in countries like Jordan and other neighbouring countries to war zones. The reason people come is because of war and conflict and they should be treated with decency and compassion. The Home Office routinely find children to be adults and expose them to risk. We know what the hostile environment did to the Windrush generation this is just more of the same but targeting children. Patel is completely despicable and should not be allowed to get away with this.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children At Risk Over Age Assessments

Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children At Risk Over Age Assessments — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:51:03 +0000

[…] response to the new plans, Stewart Maclachlan, senior legal at Coram Children’s Legal Centre stated: ‘The new proposals on the framework for assessing age are deeply worrying. They will […]

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:25:19 +0000

Reading these one would think that no social worker ever wrongly determined that a person was not a child. By all means approach this as an “immigration” issue but spare us the angst about resources denied British children.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:23:37 +0000

If a young person seeking asylum in Britain is in possession of an internationally recognised identification document, the responsibilities of the state are very clear indeed. Without such documentation, the state’s decision as to what services may be offered is based on a combination of professional judgement/ethics and political climate and such a decision can be open to doubt and to challenge.
No scientific method exists which can provide an accurate assessment of age and even then, such methods require one or other form of invasive intervention which is unlikely to be condoned by any responsible authority.
The competing political, financial, social and moral considerations relevant to these decisions ensure that this issue will remain deeply contentious within the current system of formal service provision.
The proposal to return asylum seekers to the “safe country of most recent embarkation” is essentially designed to remove the right of asylum from anybody entering the country via unauthorised routes i.e. across the Channel. However this proposal is fundamentally flawed in that it requires agreement from that “safe country” and because of its geographical proximity, this implies France which is under no obligation to offer such an agreement.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Han Wachtel

Han Wachtel — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 07:39:16 +0000

The solution, as ever, requires some common sense and joined-up thinking. The safeguarding element must apply not only to new arrivals claiming to be children, but also to those that ‘child’ will interact with, thus we have previously had the spectacle of ‘someone who looks 40 in a maths class’ situation, as an example.

How hard is it to use the provided method for those who are obviously children (pre-pubescent) or younger adolescents, while reserving the more intrusive methods for those cases where there is some doubt.

In a similar vein, it should not fall on local authorities to fund this process. There should be a pot funded by central government which supports those LAs’ engaging in the care and welfare of immigrants, including such extras as age verification.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Bionic Woman

Bionic Woman — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:02:34 +0000

The system of age assessment has always been deeply flawed and SW assessments often conclude an adult is a minor, if it was thought the adult was 18, 19 or early 20s. This was often done to save thousands of pounds in legal costs defending disputed age assessments in the High Court. The idea that age assessments were solely based on arriving at an accurate age assessment is erroneous to say the least.

There are numerous genuine unaccompanied minors having to share accomodation with adults claiming to be children, where those adults were either bullying, bossing children around and very controlling, so the existing reception care for those who are genuinely UASC is not safe either.

In another case, an adult had been treated as a child and accommodated with other children and it was only discovered that he was an adult when he was admitted to a Paediatric ward for renal surgery. The surgeon reached the conclusion his patient was an adult as all of the surgical appliances had to be ordered from adult supplies. Meanwhile the man had been an in-patient on a Paediatric unit, placing all children in that ward at risk. Where was the safety for other children? I recall a number of occasions where minors and/or friends of unaccompanied minors or residential SW staff complained about other ‘alleged minors’ bullying and bossy behaviour towards genuine minors. Flawed age assessments of adults does not safeguard genuine asylum seeking minors.

At one point in Kent the hundreds of people arriving daily to claim asylum as minors meant it was impossible to find any Foster care placements for British children as virtually all Kent Foster placements had been exhausted. Kent was provided with very little in terms of resources to cope with the problem. The situation only improved when government measures were brought in for other LAs to accept and accommodate UASC from Kent and share their resources.

I accept that the reasons for coming to the UK are complex. However a major factor is that the UK is very generous in its care and benefits packages specifically to unaccompanied minors. The economic factors cannot be ignored. The support to adult asylum seekers needs to be improved so that asylum seekers do not need to pose as children to get the same services and rights.