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Young People Seeking Safety is a network of individuals and organisations who have joined together to promote the rights and safety of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK. On Saturday 14 May, YPSS comes to Bristol for an afternoon of discussion, drama, music and poetry. The conference, organised by Bristol Defend the Asylum [...]

Children’s charity Barnardo’s have been contracted by the Home Office as a service provider at the new families detention centre at Pease Pottage, Sussex. The secure “pre-departure accommodation” is widely seen as detention re-packaged, and Barnardo’s role in the centre - which could see over 6,000 children a year detained - is controversial. Chief Executive [...]

For years, the UK government has knowingly harmed between 1,000 and 2,000 children of asylum-seekers a year, sending dawn hit squads to raid family homes, to search children in their beds and lock them up (sometimes for weeks and months) in places known to harm their mental and physical health. All in the name of [...]

Refugee Council response to first quarterly asylum statistics for 2010 published today Refugee Council, 28 May 2010 In response to the publication of the first quarterly asylum stats for 2010, Donna Covey, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council said: “Initial decision making in the asylum system continues to give cause for concern, with 27% of [...]

The new coalition Government have now published their agreed policy priorities and within the document is a commitment to “end the detention of children for immigration purposes”. This is a huge step forward for the campaign and for every one of you who has helped demand this change. Click here to read the full coalition [...]

The Local Government Ombudsman has ruled that Liverpool City Council failed to follow long-established guidance when social workers who had no specific training assessed the age of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking girl. Social workers who had no specific training assessed the age of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking girl, finds Local Government Ombudsman, Anne Seex. In her report, [...]