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Kids in Need of Defense UK submits inaugural application for separated child
We are excited to report that lawyers working with Kids in Need of Defense UK in partnership with MiCLU have submitted their first application for leave to remain to the Home Office – with a positive outcome for their young client. Lawyers of the Covington & Burling team
Join us in asking the government to give unaccompanied children access to justice again
The Children’s Society have launched a petition to call on the Government to reinstate legal aid for all unaccompanied and separated migrant children. The Government’s decision in 2012 to remove free legal help for thousands of unaccompanied and separated migrant children has left them on their own and unable to navigate the complex immigration system. However,
Children First, Migrants Second
Precarious Citizenship: Unseen, Settled and Alone – The Legal and Protection Needs of ‘Undocumented’ Children and Young People in England and Wales. Our new report is out, presenting the findings of over four years of specialist casework with 52 separated children and young people whose lives have been affected by
