Seeking Support: A Guide to the Rights and Entitlements of Separated Children
Fourth Edition 2012
This is a guide to the rights and entitlements of separated children in England, and provides advice to professionals on how to support children and young people in accessing those entitlements. Separated children are children under 18 years of age who are outside their country of origin and separated from both parents or their legal/customary primary care-giver (definition from UNHCR and Save the Children Separated Children in Europe Programme, Statement of Good Practice).
The majority of separated children come to the UK on their own, but in some cases they may be accompanied by an adult who is not their parent or legal or customary carer. Some children become separated in the UK after informal foster arrangements or a family break down. In all cases, separated children are, by definition, children who have been deprived of their family environment.
Separated children can include the following groups:
• Children who have been trafficked
• Children who are seeking asylum in their own right
• Children who get separated from their parents/ primary caregiver in transit
• Children who are being privately fostered
• Children who have been orphaned
• Children who are seeking relief from poverty, deprivation and hardship
Published : 31st December 2012
Publisher : Coram Children’s Legal Centre [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : Coram Children’s Legal Centre
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