OUR MISSION

To make the immigration and asylum systems safer and fairer and work in the best interests of children and young people.

OUR VISION 

• Protecting and promoting access to justice for young people.
• Achieving a best practice model of working that promotes children’s rights by:
  • Employing a child-centred and trauma-informed approach,
  • Providing expert legal representation,
  • Undertaking strategic litigation, and
  • Ensuring our practice experience informs and is informed by policy and research.
• Bringing the young person’s voice to the fore and ensuring that this is heard at all levels.
• Working in partnership with those with lived experience of the immigration and asylum system, learning from them and share that learning more widely.

THE MICLU METHOD 

• Continuing to build our expertise and capacity to ensure we reach as many children and young people as possible, through direct representation and through sharing our skill set and approach with legal representatives.
• Continuing to address systemic issues and legislation affecting children and young people, through strategic litigation, including supporting challenges brought by third parties.
• Challenging and influencing government policies and working practices through our policy work, with the aim of embedding a more child friendly approach within government processes and procedures.
• Ensuring that our clients’ voices are central to our work and are heard by the legal community and by opinion formers and decision makers, through service user engagement and partnerships with community organisations, gaining allies in civil society.
• Working with young people, amplifying their voices, ensuring their experiences inform our work, informing their deep understanding of the systems applied to them, and securing their future.
• Working in partnership across sectors to build expertise and encourage best practice when working with children and young people with immigration issues, through policy, advocacy and legal education.