- A message to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care
- Young asylum seekers and unregulated accommodation
- Legal aid and care leavers with immigration cases, August 2019
- EU Settlement Scheme – European looked after children and care leavers
- Briefings on the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
Children
Latest from the Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium
Key posts about children
Can children and parents apply to remain after seven years’ residence?
18th October 2021
Visas for children under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules
25th September 2018
Briefing: how lawyers can help young people in the asylum system
10th December 2018
ILPA best practice guides
- General guide to working with children with some fantastic ideas and suggestions
- Best interests, voice of the child, age disputes, representing children and more
- Comprehensive and really useful guide to other resources
- How to claim legal aid in immigration cases involving children
Other guidance
- General guidance for all tribunals
- Immigration and Asylum Chamber specific guidance
- Fantastic and comprehensive resource and is essential reading for anyone working with refugee children
- 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
- 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.
- 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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Home Office not required to help work out whether a child is British
Is the Home Office under a duty to provide information establishing a child’s nationality? This is the question considered by the Inner House of the Court of Session in AS v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] CSIH 16. Unfortunately, t ...
22nd March 2022Intended parents can bring Ukrainian surrogate mothers to the UK
The Home Office has promised to give UK visas to Ukrainian surrogate mothers and their families, casting a lifeline to intended parents. Provision will also be made for babies born outside the UK to Ukrainian surrogate mothers, according to Home Secre ...
21st March 2022Supreme Court upholds government’s right to set child citizenship fees as it chooses
The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the level at which the government has set the fees for children to register as British citizens. The court held that the government has been authorised by Parliament to set the level of the fees as it cho ...
2nd February 2022Uncertainty persists for Zambrano carers following Court of Appeal ruling
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the government’s appeal against last year’s decision that the EU Settlement Scheme rules on Zambrano carers are unlawful. But the judgment in Akinsanya v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] E ...
26th January 2022“Westernised” Iraqi family granted asylum
What does it mean to be ‘westernised’? It is striking that a term that is used so frequently in this jurisdiction has never been more closely defined. I would suggest that this is because, like obscene material, it is because we ‘know it when we ...
19th January 2022Can children and parents apply to remain after seven years’ residence?
From a child’s perspective, seven years of residence in the UK can be literally a lifetime. It may be the sum of all the child’s experience and the UK may be the only home they know in any meaningful sense. On top of that, children do not make the ...
18th October 2021