Posts Tagged “children”

Child citizenship fees: a barrier to education

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Child citizenship fees: a barrier to education

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration is currently inspecting the UK Home Office’s approach to charging for its services in respect of its asylum, immigration, nationality and customs functions. The inspection will look at the rationale and authority for particular charges, including the amounts charged. It will also look at whether the Home…

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Administrative error: extra 130 places ‘discovered’ for child refugees under Dubs Scheme

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Administrative error: extra 130 places ‘discovered’ for child refugees under Dubs Scheme

Despite the original expectation that 3,000 child refugees who had travelled from Syria to Europe would be brought to the UK under the ‘Dubs Scheme’, the government announced earlier this year that the scheme would close after just 350 unaccompanied migrant children had been resettled. Two months later and an extra 130 places have now…

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7 priority actions to protect all refugee and migrant children

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7 priority actions to protect all refugee and migrant children

78 organisations active in the field of children’s rights have strongly welcomed the focus on protecting children in migration at year’s European Forum on the Rights of the Child and they have identified seven priority ways in which EU leaders can better protect children. At least 1 in 3 people arriving to Greece by sea…

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14 teenage boys arrive in UK from Calais

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14 teenage boys arrive in UK from Calais

Fourteen boys aged 14-17 have arrived in the UK from the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. The BBC report that most “are from Afghanistan and Syria, while one is a stateless Bidun who originated from Kuwait”. They are among about 100 minors who will be brought over by the Home Office. Their first task will be to register with…

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Unicef call for faster family reunification + petition

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Unicef call for faster family reunification + petition

UNICEF have added their voice to the call for the UK Government to more speedily honour their promise to help reunite refugee children with families already in the United Kingdom. They’re also running a petition to lobby the Home Secretary. The unaccompanied refugee children of the Calais refugee camp are putting themselves in grave danger in…

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Discontent with slow progress on reception of child migrants into UK

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Discontent with slow progress on reception of child migrants into UK

At the beginning of May, UK Prime Minister David Cameron committed to speed up the existing work on the reception of child migrants with a direct family connection to the UK. The statement from 10 Downing Street said: “The government is not putting a fixed number on arrivals, but will instead work with local authorities…

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Rev Sarah Moore asks “What does desperation look like?”

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Rev Sarah Moore asks “What does desperation look like?”

Rev Sarah Moore is area president for the United Reformed Church in Cumbria and a CTBI Trustee. She was part of a delegation of twelve women from churches across Britain and Ireland that visited refugee hotspots and refugee projects in Greece in May. Can you think of a time in your life that you have…

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CEC Summer School on Human Rights: Stand Up for Women and Children’s Rights

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CEC Summer School on Human Rights: Stand Up for Women and Children’s Rights

The Conference of European Churches (CEC) human rights summer school will be held next week in Thessaloniki, Greece. Alongside specific sessions looking at the experience of women and children as refugees, the event will also explore human and organ trafficking, sexual exploitation, working conditions and pay, an equal level of education and progress in the…

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Update – David Cameron agrees to accept unaccompanied child refugees already in Europe into the UK

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Update – David Cameron agrees to accept unaccompanied child refugees already in Europe into the UK

Update – During Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, David Cameron committed to speed up the existing work on the reception of child migrants with a direct family connection to the UK. “I am also talking to Save the Children to see what we can do more, particularly about children who came here before the EU-Turkey deal was…

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UK Government to take in additional 3,000 unaccompanied and vulnerable children

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UK Government to take in additional 3,000 unaccompanied and vulnerable children

Earlier this week the UK Government announced that it will work with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) to resettle children and adults from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The background to this announcement: In January the UK Government commissioned the UNHCR to develop and lead a new initiative to resettle vulnerable children…

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