Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied asylum»

In particular, foster carers are needed to look after teenagers, disabled children, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

Figures vary but with approximately three quarters of the children and young people in care being placed with foster carers, we still need more foster carers to look after specific groups of children such as teenagers, children from ethnic minority groups, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people.

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has published a report looking at the Home Office's handling of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and how...

Coping with Stress in the Forced Repatriation of Unaccompanied Asylum - Seeking Refugee Children among Swedish Police Officers and Social Workers

The current study focuses on coping strategies among social workers and police officers in the context of the forced repatriation of unaccompanied asylum - seeking refugee children.

Placements 75 % (52,050) of children looked after on 31st March 2015 were living with foster carers 9 % (6,570) were living in secure units, children's homes or hostels 5 % (3,510) were placed with their parents 5 % (3,320) were placed for adoption 3 % (2,280) were with another placement in the community 3 % (1,750) were placed in residential schools or other residential settings Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children 2,630 unaccompanied asylum seeking children were looked after on 31st March 2015 — See more at: http://www.childprotectionresource.org.uk/for-what-reasons-do-other-countries-allow-adoption-without-consent/#comment-62844

In A Place for Us, she presented the voices of unaccompanied asylum - seeking teenagers in East Ham.

Thirty - five per cent of pupils at his «very diverse» school with «lots of unaccompanied asylum seekers» were entitled to free school meals in 2014, against a national average of 28.5 per cent.

• There is a correlation between the appalling treatment the Windrush generation has suffered and the unaccompanied asylum - seeking children (Dubs children) promised safety and sanctuary but denied it by the Home Office.

The council is supporting significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum - seeking children who do not have English as a second language and require additional support in schools.

But they are then given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

Most kids who come to the UK and claim asylum are rejected and instead granted given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

Over the past year I have been researching the struggle faced by unaccompanied asylum - seeking children that arrive in the UK looking for protection.

Kent County Council, which has responsibility for a large proportion of all unaccompanied asylum - seeking children, is struggling under the increased pressure.

Home for Good also allows people to register their interest in fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeking child.

Not exact matches

Ninety - nine unaccompanied children arrived asking for asylum from Afghanistan in the first half of this year alone.

This Bill, if enacted, wold make provision for the award of asylum - seeker status in the United Kingdom to certain unaccompanied children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea displaced by conflict and present within the European Union.

The most recent figures show that only a fifth of all those unaccompanied children were granted asylum, and the rate at which children receive asylum has dropped in recent years.

Just over 100 children have been granted permanent legal status or asylum in New York City two years after the City Council launched a private - public partnership to prevent unaccompanied minors from being deported from the city.

Ms. Mark - Viverito proudly announced that the multi-million-dollar New York City Unaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facingUnaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facingunaccompanied child facing deportation.

The Home Office has confirmed it is looking at plans to forcibly remove hundreds of unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the UK.

And in March, at a press conference with President Hollande, David Cameron said that if unaccompanied minors in Calais had direct family in Britain and applied for asylum in France, under the Dublin Convention they could use the existing processes allowing them to join their family in Britain.

This is a particular problem in assisting unaccompanied minors making applications to extend their leave where an asylum case may have previously been refused but the client granted a period of leave on account of their age.

The absurdity of this was recognised as early as June 2013 by the Human Rights Joint Committee who urged the government to «pay attention to the impact of withdrawing legal aid for non asylum immigration matters» and «consider the cost - benefit case for providing legal aid to all unaccompanied migrant children».

The special protection for unaccompanied minor asylum - seekers under the Family Reunification Directive would therefore extend beyond the age of maturity if the person concerned is able to access the territory of a Member State, submit an application for the refugee status before turning eighteen and is successively successful in their application.

Where an unaccompanied minor with no member of his family legally present in the territory of a Member State has lodged asylum applications in more than one Member State, the Member State in which that minor is present after having lodged an asylum application there is to be designated the Member State responsible.

Unaccompanied children form a category of particularly vulnerable persons and prompt access to an asylum procedure and the prevention of unnecessary delays in the Dublin procedure are central to their best interests (Para. 61).

This ruling means that unaccompanied children who claim asylum in a Member State can not be removed to another State pursuant to the Dublin Regulation.

Pearl deals with all aspects of immigration, including asylum, humanitarian protection, settlement (including victims of domestic violence) and unaccompanied minors.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Pearl was at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and provided legal advice to practitioners on asylum law and policies in the UK; reviewed conditions of detention of asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, in accordance with UNHCR's guidelines; and represented UNHCR at the 20th Assembly session on the adoption of a resolution.

The third edition of this comprehensive survey of the basic elements of asylum law now includes a thorough overview of asylum procedure, complete with practice tips for preparing asylum claims for unaccompanied minors.

Finally, the third edition of this publication includes a thorough overview of the procedural steps involved in filing an asylum claim, with new sections describing the process for unaccompanied minors and special considerations for working with children.

I am a member of the Federal Trial Bar and have devoted significant time to pro bono work, helping unaccompanied children seeking asylum navigate the U.S. immigrant justice system and, more recently, helping exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals.

Some of the ABA staff, particularly those that are connected with the ProBar program which provides pro bono representation to individuals seeking asylum at the Texas border, many of them unaccompanied children, some of that staff they've resigned, they've given notice, they've expressed severe concern about the ABA no longer being a qualified public service loan forgiveness employer.

Imogen regularly acts as sole counsel for unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their judicial review challenges of local authorities» «age assessments» which have found them to be over 18.

Imogen has acted as sole counsel for a number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their successful judicial review challenges to local authorities» «age assessments» which found them to be over 18 years old.

Successfully advocated for pro bono clients, including immigrants in asylum proceedings and unaccompanied children seeking special immigrant juvenile status.

Second, particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents, and those engaged in the uncertain process of sought asylum.

Sourander (1998) concluded that unaccompanied children and adolescents are highly vulnerable towards emotional and behavioural symptoms, which are exacerbated by asylum - seeking stress.

It is also apparent that particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents and those still in the process of seeking asylum.

Findings of these studies are pertinent as they reflect areas of research in unaccompanied samples and direct effects of the asylum seeking process that are largely under investigated in the empirical literature.

Sourander (1998) examined traumatic events and emotional and behavioural symptoms of 46 unaccompanied refugee minors awaiting placement in an asylum centre in Finland.