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Multidisciplinary organisations working with unaccompanied asylum seeking young people must improve training, coordination, and support to ensure that none are left behind, write Susanna Corona Maioli and colleagues Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are young people aged under 18, separated from their legal guardians, who are seeking asylum in the UK after displacement. Asylum seeking young people aged 18-25 also continue to be a vulnerable group. As of September 2022, the UK received more than 5000 asylum applications for unaccompanied children.1 Most came from Sudan, Albania, Eritrea, Af...

Discrimination has ‘profound’ effect on health of disadvantaged people, says Lancet review

Delan Devakumar, Professor of Global Child Health and Co-Director of the Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents at University College London (UCL), UK, has always understood racism and what it is like to be discriminated against. About a year before he was born, his parents’ house in Sri Lanka was burnt down. “It was a targeted attack”, he says. “My father comes from the Tamil minority group.” Later, as a south Asian boy growing up in north Wales, UK, he experienced racism first hand and recalls how “in the 1980s and 90s there weren’t many people who looked like...