Migrant Children's Project Newsletter
June 2018
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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.
Leaving care support: new fact sheet
Do you work with migrant and refugee care leavers and have questions about the law? Our new fact sheet sets out entitlements to leaving care support for migrant children and young people, as well as information on under what circumstances such support can be removed. Click here to view our full fact sheet. For information on local authority care for migrant children, see our fact sheets on local authority support for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and children in care with immigration issues.
EU children and young people- protecting their rights in the UK With the UK due to leave the European Union (EU) on 29th March 2019, the Migrant Children’s Project has published an information page on EU national children and young people and protecting their rights in the UK. See our guidance for information about EU legal rights which might currently apply to children and young people or their carers, how they might change following Brexit, as well as practical guidance on how to prepare for these changes.
If you have queries about these or other issues, please contact our advice line on 0207 636 8505 or email [email protected].
We would like to remind you that you can read our new privacy information here: https://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/privacy-policy/. If you have any questions or concerns about your data, you can contact us on [email protected].
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 Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 2pm - 5pm Thursday, 11 October 2018, 2pm - 5pm Access to education for migrant children
Coram Campus, London Monday, 17 September 2018, 2pm - 5pm The rights and entitlements of young refugees and migrants Coram Campus, London Tuesday, 26 June 2018, 10am - 4:30pm Thursday, 4 October 2018, 10am - 4:30pm Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 10am - 4:30pm 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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