Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers

Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Age Assessment Toolkit

This Toolkit is intended primarily to support local authority staff undertake age assessments of. Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and. Young People (UASC) ...

Coram joins with children's charities to oppose 'regressive' new ...

... children's charities to oppose 'regressive' new methods of age assessing young asylum seekers ... Some children are trafficked using false documents.” “In ...

Age assessment and the protection of minor asylum seekers

In 2019, in a statement on age assessment of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, the World Medical Association held that medical age assessment ...

Home Office to introduce scientific methods for assessing the age of ...

This advice will help ensure asylum seeking adults posing as children do not get access to support they are not entitled to, and remove the ...

The impact of incorrect age assessment for minors - forRefugees

However, unaccompanied children seeking asylum may be fleeing war, persecution, and human rights abuses and/or have been victims of trafficking.

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 be denied the special protection attributed ...

Age assessment of young asylum seekers | Request PDF

International and national policies for asylum seekers and refugees often grant young people under the age of 18 years greaterprotection and support than they ...

Age assessment and fingerprinting of children in asylum procedures

After stress- ing that all age assessment methods include a margin of error, the guide particularly addresses the intrusiveness ... age of an asylum seeker and ...

UK asylum seeker plan risks deporting children based on flawed ...

Age assessments aren't mere form filling. Unaccompanied children arriving in the UK need to enter education and be found a foster family as soon ...

Report finds 'flawed' UK age assessments a risk to child migrants

At least 1,300 refugee children were placed in unsupervised adult accommodation or detention between January 2022 and June 2023 due to flaws in ...

Navigating the Unreliable Path of Age Assessments: A Call for ...

At Refugee Youth Service, we recently had the privilege of taking a group of age-disputed children to the Natural History Museum in London.

He fled war in Sudan. Now the UK doesn't believe he's a kid

The Home Office guesses asylum seekers' ages using 'inaccurate and unethical' tests. These are the consequences.

(PDF) Age assessment of young asylum seekers - Academia.edu

This paradox is most evident with unaccompanied minors who are caught between state norms and practices that are both exclusionary and repressive (asylum) and ...

Rwanda asylum seekers: 'Inaccurate' age tests such as dental ...

Despite the government's proposed Nationality and Borders Bill calling for “scientific methods” to confirm that child asylum seekers aren't ...

UKIP wrong that half of unaccompanied children seeking asylum are ...

In 2020, 50% of all resolved age dispute cases have involved asylum seekers who are ultimately found to be over 18. But it's not correct to ...

Hundreds of asylum seeker children in UK wrongly deemed to be ...

“Flawed age assessments are an alarming child protection failure, and the government must take urgent action so that every refugee child is kept ...

Unaccompanied asylum-seeker children: flawed processes and ...

However, it is often in the economic and practical interests of the local authorities not to accept young asylum seekers for long-term care. It is the local ...

A new approach to age assessment of Unaccompanied and ...

Unaccompanied and separated asylum seeking children (hereafter 'UASC') present one of the greatest challenges facing governments in the realm of international ...

Unreliable age tests on asylum seekers may leave children ...

X-rays and other biological tests could be carried out on children seeking asylum, potentially causing physical and psychological harm, ...

Home Office urged to reconsider unethical age assessments for ...

Home Office urged to reconsider unethical age assessments for children seeking asylum ... These 'scientific methods' include the use of x-ray and ...