New podcast: Hear MiCLU's Anna Skehan and Islington Law Centre's Roopa Tana talk about “de-integration”, as kids effectively become immigrants for the first time, and how children may benefit from recent changes
Date checked:In response to litigation by Islington Law Centre and MiCLU and campaigning work by We Belong, the Home Office yesterday announced a major policy concession in relation to the 10-year route to settlement
Date checked:Earlier this week we were were excited to help launch new research by Christine Beddoe that considers how Home Office delays put young unaccompanied asylum-seekers at risk of trafficking. Young people from
Date checked:'Before the pandemic many of us would have struggled to imagine a life being separated from loved ones, living with restrictions on our freedom to move about and not able to easily
Date checked:David Neale, a legal researcher and former barrister for Garden Court Chambers, writes in his blog for Refugee Week about his experiences collaborating on MiCLU’s Breaking the Chains project. Breaking the Chains was created in
Date checked:MiCLU, ECPAT UK, Shpresa Programme, Young Roots and 17 other charities have asked the Children’s Commissioner to investigate failings to children and young people in the Covid-19 crisis. In our letter to Anne Longfield, we
Date checked:An Observer article uncovers highly disturbing information information about how trafficked and unaccompanied children have been going missing in significant numbers and facing either exploitation or re-exploitation since the government reduced protection for children in
Date checked:Kids in Need of Defense UK's MiCLU hub have been nominated for the Law Society Excellence Awards along with our fantastic pro bono partners, to whom we are so thankful for their
Date checked:MiCLU have been celebrating the recent success of a Kids in Need of Defense UK immigration application where the Home Office praised the detailed set of evidence prepared by lawyers conducting
Date checked:Meet Ola, who has just received her A-level results: great news! Until she gets home to find her mum in a difficult situation... Smart, outgoing and popular, Ola is desperately trying to
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