Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in the UK
The report is based on a review of international and regional conventions, domestic legislation, policies and practices that cover the main areas relating to child wellbeing. (e.g. analysis of national and legal frameworks, monitoring entry to provide protection, age disputes, detention of unaccompanied children, accommodation and care of unaccompanied children, the need for a legal guardian, determination process, outcomes of asylum applications and the right to appeal). The research reveals no evidence of any government inquiry into the general causes of migration by unaccompanied or separated children who apply for asylum in the UK. Furthermore, the report proposes that the Immigration and Nationality Directorate should conduct additional research by expanding its sources of information in order to reveal why there are more children than adults fleeing from particular countries to the UK.