Coram has responded to the Home Secretary’s plans to reform the system for settlement in the UK, set out in Parliament today. The plans announced include some important five-year routes for children but will keep thousands of children in limbo and bar some families from ever getting permanent status, with children in refugee families waiting…
Routes to permanent status of ten years and more are not in children’s interests, says CCLC, as the Home Office today announces its response to its consultation on “earned settlement”, set out in November 2025 proposing waits for permanent status of up to 30 years. It is expected to announce that many visa-holders who came…
The Government’s pilot to offer families up to £40,000 if they leave within seven days raises concerns amongst organisations working with families in the asylum system. For families seeking asylum there can be a number of barriers preventing return such as governments refusing to issue travel documents or nationality being disputed. Serious medical needs, risks…
R (Kone) v Secretary of State for the Home Department concerned a Home Office decision to grant limited leave to a child instead of settlement, because although her father was a British citizen living in the UK, her mother only had limited leave. The Court of Appeal held that the Home Office view was incorrect.…
The Home Secretary has announced implementation of sweeping changes to the asylum system, first announced in November in its policy paper Restoring Order and Control. We have previously welcomed the Home Office’s statement that the government would consider the appropriate pathway for refugee children in families at the time of publication. However, we are now…
Ahead of the child poverty strategy’s publication, the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium calls on the government to address poverty experienced by children in the immigration and asylum systems. The children’s sector has warmly welcomed the lifting of the two-child limit, announced in last week’s budget. Now children’s organisations are waiting to see what the…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre is concerned by plans for children in this week’s asylum and immigration proposals, urging caution with language. The Government has announced further immigration proposals that will delay many children, young people and families reaching permanent status. While we welcome the renewed commitment to children in the care system and young people…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre is opposed to Home Office proposals to keep refugees in uncertainty; refugee children have a fundamental need for recovery, stability and integration. The previous government had planned measures in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to give refugees only temporary status. However, in move that we welcomed, they then reversed their…
As the Government today publishes its immigration white paper, children’s charities have reacted to say the reforms do not take account of children whose lives are determined by the immigration system, often leaving them in limbo. The proposed reforms will leave people who come to the UK on short-term visas for longer before they can…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre welcomes the government scrapping child detention powers in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, published today. Powers to detain children without time limit were brought in with the Illegal Migration Act 2023, though had not yet been commenced. They included allowing the government to lock up children arriving in the…
From tomorrow, 1st January 2025, most non-British children who live in the UK will need an e-visa to prove their immigration status.
The High Court has ruled that the Home Office breached its duty to provide adequate asylum accommodation to a mother and her severely disabled child following a successful judicial review initiated by CCLC. The claim was brought by an asylum seeker and her severely disabled 5-year-old child. The child experiences frequent seizures and requires close…