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The impact of incorrect age assessment for minors


The impact of incorrect age assessment for minors - forRefugees

The assessment systems used to determine people's ages are unreliable, poorly implemented, and often violate the legal rights of children; ...

Age assessments have huge consequences - Young Roots

Many young people we work with at Young Roots are told that they are not the age they know they are. Incorrectly assessing a child to be an ...

The Use of Age Assessment in the Context of Child Migration - NCBI

Inaccurate assessments may have devastating consequences for children who may suddenly be 'determined' to be an adult, thus denied special ...

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

Scientific age assessments often fail to account for the long-lasting impact of trauma on a child's well-being, introducing a significant ...

Ditch age assessment X-rays - Refugee Council

Estimates from the Refugee Council show that the number of children who are facing serious safeguarding consequences because of such mistakes is ...

AGE ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN IN MIGRATION

An incorrect age assessment results in child victims not having access to ... far-reaching consequences for children in migration undergoing age assessment.

How European countries wrongfully classify children seeking ...

Governments say they use age assessments to protect minors and to prevent adults from pretending to be children to try to gain easier access to ...

Age assessment of unaccompanied foreign minors: an analyses of ...

The incorrect assessment of age for ... minors, considering the significant impact age assessments would have on arriving migrants.

Age-disputed Refugee Children - Hansard - UK Parliament

When children are incorrectly assessed as adults, they are placed into poorly supervised adult accommodation, hotels and detention centres. The ...

Psychosocial age assessments in the UK - Forced Migration Review

A primary consideration of any age assessment should be the repercussions that may ensue if the assessment is not accurate. If a child is assessed as an adult, ...

FORCED ADULTHOOD: The Home Office's incorrect determination ...

FORCED ADULTHOOD: The Home Office's incorrect determination of age and how this leaves child refugees at risk ... This has a terrible impact ...

The age assessment process - Coram Children's Legal Centre

Age is central to identity, and the age assessment process can be very damaging for children who are disbelieved. It is extremely important that age assessments ...

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 ...

Age assessment for unaccompanied minors

Incorrect age assessments often result in children being wrongfully detained or made ... The position that a transition category would mitigate the consequences ...

Born Yesterday? Age assessment of unaccompanied asylum ...

Alternatively, a child may be wrongfully placed in a setting with adults. Both scenarios pose a substantial risk of harm, abuse and neglect to ...

Pros and cons for the medical age assessments in unaccompanied ...

They also generate a margin of error that makes them inaccurate to use. There is a debate about the risks and ethics associated with the use of ...

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

This poses an additional challenge in cases of children approaching the age of 18. An incorrect age assessment can have grave consequences by denying vulnerable ...

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.

The Use of Age Assessment in the Context of Child Migration

... Inaccurate, Inconclusive and Endangers Children's Rights. Children (Basel). 2019 Jul 23;6(7):85. doi: 10.3390/children6070085. Author.

Challenging Childhood: Vulnerability and Age Assessments

The age assessment may have the following outcome(s): children ... Yet, incorrect assessments can have devastating effects on these ...