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Migrant Children's Project Newsletter
June 2018
If you have used our guidance and resources recently, and want to inform our work for the coming year, please take two minutes to complete our short survey here. Changes to the Immigration Rules  This month, the government announced changes to the Immigration Rules within a number of categories, including a new form of immigration status for children who came to the UK from Europe under the ‘Dubs’ amendment, but do not qualify for refugee status or humanitarian protection. The new rule seeks to create a new form of leave to remain in the UK, and just like refugee status and humanitarian protection, this new leave would last for five years. It also gives the holder a right to study, work and access public funds and healthcare.CCLC welcomes these steps in recognizing the need for longer-term grants of leave for children. However, it will only apply to a small handful of children, and much more needs to be done to address the issues faced by unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC). These children are only granted leave for as long as they are children, and are not found to be in need of international protection but cannot return to their country of origin because there are no adequate reception arrangements there. For more information on UASC leave, see our full fact sheet here. EU children and young people- protecting their rights in the UK Our upcoming training courses in 2018 Our courses can now be booked online - just visit our Eventbrite page! An introduction to the rights of children and young people in the immigration system
Coram Campus, London Access to education for migrant childrenCoram Campus, London The rights and entitlements of young refugees and migrants Coram Campus, London For more information and to book, please see our eventbrite page. To commission in-house training for your organisation, please see our website. New reports and guidance
Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules
Home Office, June 2018
School Census 2018 to 2019
Department for Education, June 2018
Latest news
Home Office pays out £21m after mistakenly detaining 850 people
The Guardian, 28 June 2018
'A money-making machine': families struggle to pay Home Office charges
The Guardian, 24 June 2018
Slash 'obscene' Home Office fees, say MPs and campaigners
The Guardian, 24 June 2018
Meet the filmmakers highlighting the plight of child refugees
Rights Info, 23 June 2018
'They're anxious': separated migrant children in foster care are now in limbo after Trump's immigration order
Time, 22 June 2018
How can we ignore child refugees facing cruelty and toxic stress
The Guardian, 20 June 2018
Theresa May silent over caged migrant children in the US
The Times, 20 June 2018
Refugee status is not lost because part of home country is now safe
Free Movement, 19 June 2018
Suicides raise alarm about UK's treatment of child refugees
The Guardian, 17 June 2018
Council criticized for failure to provide accommodation to child refugees
Free Movement, 13 June 2018
As a refugee, you can't do anything in the UK if you don't speak English
Metro, 7 June 2018
Government faces high court challenge over 'right to rent' scheme
The Guardian, 6 June 2018
Hostile environment: how risk averse universities penalize migrants
The Guardian, 5 June 2018
Legal challenge says that right to rent rules discriminate against non-UK nationals
The Guardian, 3 June 2018
The refugees who gave up on Britain
The Guardian, 1 June 2018
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