How to become an Immigration Advice Authority Level 2 adviser
31 January 2025
Children
Latest from the Refugee & Migrant Children’s Consortium
- Fee waivers for applications made outside the UK: who can qualify and how to apply
- Refugee succeeds in High Court challenge to negative trafficking decision
- Home Office concede that Dutch man was wrongly excluded from UK in case of mistaken identity
- Ten years after the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act, safety is more elusive than ever
- Inspection of fee waiver applications notes improvement in processing times, concerns about decision quality
Key posts about children
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ILPA BEST PRACTICE GUIDES
WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SUBJECT TO IMMIGRATION CONTROL: GUIDELINES FOR BEST PRACTICE
General guide to working with children with some fantastic ideas and suggestions
WORKING WITH REFUGEE CHILDREN: CURRENT ISSUES IN BEST PRACTICE
Best interests, voice of the child, age disputes, representing children and more
RESOURCES GUIDE FOR PRACTITIONERS WORKING WITH REFUGEE CHILDREN
Comprehensive and really useful guide to other resources
SEPARATED CHILDREN AND LEGAL AID
How to claim legal aid in immigration cases involving children
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Home Office guidance on discretionary indefinite leave for children held to be unlawful
Sonia Lenegan
11 April 2025
Other Guidance
SENIOR PRESIDENT PRACTICE DIRECTION: CHILD, VULNERABLE ADULT AND SENSITIVE WITNESSES
General guidance for all tribunals
JOINT PRESIDENTIAL GUIDANCE NOTE NO 2 OF 2010: CHILD, VULNERABLE ADULT AND SENSITIVE APPELLANT GUIDANCE
Immigration and Asylum Chamber specific guidance
THE HEART OF THE MATTER: ASSESSING CREDIBILITY WHEN CHILDREN APPLY FOR ASYLUM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Fantastic and comprehensive resource and is essential reading for anyone working with refugee children
GENERAL COMMENT NO. 12 (1989)
By the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which is very useful generally on the right of children to be heard and also includes a short section on migrant children
GUIDELINES OF THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE ON CHILD FRIENDLY JUSTICE (2010)
extremely useful on judicial process and are essential reading for representatives and judges. See section D entitled ‘Child friendly justice during judicial proceedings’ in particular.
RE W (CHILDREN) [2010] UKSC 12
The Supreme Court gave detailed consideration to the issues around the hearing of evidence of children in the context of family proceedings
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