Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers

AGE ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN IN MIGRATION

displaced, asylum-seeking, trafficked or smuggled. These children have to cope with the hardships endured on their journey and the challenges of adapting to ...

Psychosocial age assessments in the UK - Forced Migration Review

Age assessment is a process for determining the age ... For this, it is necessary to determine the age of anyone seeking asylum who may be a child. ... young-asylum ...

Minister wrong to claim UK is only European country not using ...

The UK is the only European country at the moment that does not use scientific age assessment methods to determine if asylum seekers are under or over 18.

Young Roots calls for improved decision-making in age ...

Young Roots calls for improved decision-making in age assessments of young asylum seekers ... Young Roots, a charity that supports young refugees, ...

Home Office age assessment policy for asylum seekers is unlawful ...

The Home Office's process for age-assessing young asylum seekers when they arrive in the UK has been ruled unlawful by the High Court. A ...

Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

Detriment of the Doubt: Age Assessment of. Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children · Foremost amongst the international instruments that guide age assessment ...

The age assessment process - Coram Children's Legal Centre

The age of an unaccompanied child is extremely important. It determines a child's access to education and support, effects the way in which their asylum claim ...

Medical, statistical, ethical and human rights considerations in the ...

Age assessment procedures should be undertaken only as a measure of last resort, once informed consent has been obtained. Professionals who are independent and ...

Age determination in asylum seekers: physicians should not be ...

The influx of young individuals, who are applying for the international protection in the context of refugee status and asylum, with no valid ...

Age Assessment in the New Plan - Refugee Law Initiative Blog

In 2020, 32% of all applications by unaccompanied children were age assessed. The government claims that 54% of age disputes are successful, but ...

EASO Practical Guide on Age Assessment: Second edition

safeguard in matters related to children, and also in the age assessment process in the EU asylum acquis ... age of a young asylum-seeker claiming to be under the ...

'Deeply worrying' age assessment changes will increase risks to ...

Social work and children's rights bodies warn government plans will lead to more child asylum seekers being wrongly assessed as adults and ...

Is Home Office guidance on assessing the age of children seeking ...

We are concerned that the practice of visually assessing the age of young people seeking asylum can lead to children being unlawfully detained ...

New Age Assessment Rules for Asylum- Seeking Young People

The proposed new age assessment procedures are being criticised for putting asylum-seeking young people and children at risk of being mistakenly judged as ...

Rwanda policy: Unaccompanied children and age assessments

As part of the UK's immigration system, age assessments can be undertaken if there is doubt about the claimed age of a person seeking asylum.

Biological evaluation methods to assist in assessing the age of ...

3.18. The current process for age assessment for UASC, where a local authority doubts the age claimed, has relied almost exclusively on the ...

Age assessment of young asylum seekers - Wiley Online Library

The possibility of getting it wrong makes age assessment a highly risky endeavour, as children may consequently be denied the special protection ...

AGE ASSESSMENT IN EUROPE

Asylum seeking and refugee children have a right to appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance (Article 22). Lastly, Article 37 requires states to ...

Negotiating childhood: Age assessment in the UK asylum system

morally wrong to extend the punitive treatment of adult asylum seekers to children. ... Guidelines for Age Assessment of Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers ...

Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK?

The majority of unaccompanied children who enter the UK to seek asylum do not bring with them evidence of their age. Because of this, the ...