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Home Office has doubled social worker numbers in its age assessment service over past year

National Age Assessment Board now has 42 practitioners, up from 16 in April 2023, after initially struggling to recruit

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CYP Now Awards: Outstanding work with child refugees

As the 2024 Children & Young People Now Awards open for entries, we shine a spotlight on councils who made last year’s shortlist for excellent work with refugee children and families

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Warnings that vulnerable child migrants at risk after flawed age assessments

Campaigners call on the Government to take urgent action as data suggests children are not being protected from harm.

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Report finds flawed UK age assessments a risk to child migrants

Report finds flawed UK age assessments a risk to child migrants
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More than 1,300 child migrants were wrongly put into adult accommodation because of flawed Home Office age checks, reveals report

Over 1,300 migrant children have been wrongly classified as adults by the Home Office after arriving in the UK, which in some cases has led them to be housed in adult accommodations.

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