Ola – the new web comic
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
How can we provide child friendly information to child migrants?
A fantastic new resource is now available for practitioners to help them when providing information to child migrants. The Council of Europe have published “How to convey child-friendly information
Case note: The Queen on the application of The Children’s Society v The Lord Chancellor
In July we announced that the government agreed to reinstate legal aid for separated and unaccompanied children in immigration cases. This important concession was the result of The Children’s Society’s 5-year
Press release: Legal aid to be reinstated for separated & unaccompanied children in immigration cases
We are thrilled to announce that the government has agreed to reinstate legal aid for separated and unaccompanied children in immigration cases as a result of The Children's Society's 5-year campaign and legal challenge, brought
Breaking the chains and making the system work
MiCLU's Justice First fellow Esme Madill shines a light on the failings of the Home Office toward Albanian child asylum-seekers in a new Open Democracy article where she describes her experiences working with vulnerable
New additions to the MiCLU team
We are excited to welcome two new members of the MiCLU team: Esme Madill, who joins us as a Justice First fellow trainee solicitor, and
Who is Who? and other new online resources
MiCLU are excited to announce the launch of our new information booklet, Who is Who? Who is Who? is designed for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK, to explain who the many different
MiCLU’s Kids in Need of Defense partner Microsoft wins pro bono award
Nadine Morgan and Mohammed Karim collecting the award from Hilarie Bass Congratulations to Microsoft in-house legal team for winning the LawWorks Best Contribution by an In-House Team award for their
One lawyer’s account of ‘defending our children’
Read lawyer Helena Milner-Smith's account of how she and colleagues from Covington & Burling LLP took on the immigration case of a 17-year-old girl from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Covington
Justice First Fellowship – opportunity to take up a training contract based with MiCLU
MiCLU is delighted that Islington Law Centre have been chosen as a host agency for the Justice First Fellowship programme. This means that we are able to offer a training contract based
