CCLC welcomes commitments to children in King’s Speech
Many measures in the King’s Speech have a strong focus on children’s wellbeing, others present opportunities to focus on children’s rights
Many measures in the King’s Speech have a strong focus on children’s wellbeing, others present opportunities to focus on children’s rights
It is still uncertain how the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 will apply to individual children and young people, and will be until the Home Office publishes more information about its new asylum scheme. Here we provide some basic information on what we know so far. 30 April 2024 After many attempts…
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill has passed, and is now law. The legislation strikes a blow to the UK’s commitment to international law. Against international law We have worked with our partners in the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium throughout the passage of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill to…
Following an intervention by CCLC, the Home Office has confirmed that children and young people who were brought to the UK in 2016 and 2017 as part of the Calais camp clearance will now have a shorter wait before getting permanent status, known as indefinite leave to remain or settlement, and no fee to pay.…
In October 2023 the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium hosted a conference at Coram on the Illegal Migration Act, local authorities and separated children
As Parliament debates the final stages of the Illegal Migration Bill, CCLC says: The Government must keep meaningful limits on child detention We know that locking up infants and children is wrong because we have abolished it once before. In 2011, a Conservative-led government made ending child detention a flagship policy. It was right to do…
Leading children’s organisations and charities have written to the Home Secretary to express concern at plans in the Illegal Migration Bill to reintroduce child detention. They have condemned the child detention proposals in the Bill as ‘immoral’ and in breach of international law. Reneging on ban on child detention The coalition government committed to end…
The UK’s commitment to the Refugee Convention was undermined last year with the Nationality and Borders Act, and this new proposal goes further. It effectively puts a fence up around the UK’s asylum system, with no way in for children and young people seeking safety. Children who come to the UK with their families will…
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee recently published its report All families matter: An inquiry into family migration following its inquiry into family migration in the UK. The aim of the inquiry was to approach family migration policies in the widest possible sense, looking at general trends in the design of family immigration pathways, as well…
CCLC is concerned that the government may change child protection law to become the corporate parent of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child
On 26th May the Home Office published new guidance to allow a fee waiver for the registration of some children as British Citizens. After years of campaigning and organising on this, Coram Children’s Legal Centre and Citizens UK welcome this important step. This announcement, following legal challenge by the Project for the Registration of Children as…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre warns that the Nationality and Borders Act, which received Royal Assent and has become law today, risks compounding harm to a significant number of children and young people as it departs from long-standing principles of international law as well as existing safeguarding frameworks in the UK. The Act has faced innumerable…