Asylum for children

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Services

• Accompanied and unaccompanied asylum seeking children: statement of evidence

  Use this form to give UK Visas and Immigration information about your asylum claim.

• Apply for permission to stay in the UK as a child of a non-parent relative with protection status in the UK: FLR(P)

  Apply for permission to stay in the UK as a child under 18 with a relative who is not your parent, has protection status in the UK and has not yet settled.

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Guidance and regulation

• Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and leaving care: funding instructions
  • Guidance
  • 24 October 2024
  • UK Visas and Immigration
• Every child matters: statutory guidance
  • Statutory guidance
  • 3 November 2009
  • UK Visas and Immigration
• Processing children's asylum claims: caseworker guidance
  • Guidance
  • 28 June 2022
  • UK Visas and Immigration
• Assessing age for asylum applicants: caseworker guidance
  • Guidance
  • 8 November 2024
  • UK Visas and Immigration
• Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: national transfer scheme
  • Guidance
  • 17 August 2023
  • UK Visas and Immigration

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News and communications

• Further push to help unaccompanied asylum seeking children
  • 15 February 2022
  • Home Office
  • News story
• National Transfer Scheme to become mandatory for all local authorities
  • 23 November 2021
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Changes to the National Transfer Scheme
  • 10 June 2021
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Funding boost for councils looking after asylum seeking children
  • 8 May 2019
  • Home Office
  • News story

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Policy papers and consultations

• Policy statement: section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016
  • 27 July 2020
  • UK Visas and Immigration
  • Policy paper
• Official development assistance (ODA): DfE spending statement
  • 17 April 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children family reunion: policy statement
  • 16 March 2020
  • Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration
  • Policy paper
• Response to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children report
  • 31 October 2013
  • UK Visas and Immigration and Home Office
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Transfers of children to the UK from the Calais Operation: November 2017
  • 30 November 2017
  • UK Visas and Immigration, Border Force, and Immigration Enforcement
  • Transparency
• Applications for unaccompanied asylum seeking children from 2010 to 2013
  • 1 August 2014
  • Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• UK Visas and Immigration
• Home Office
• Immigration Enforcement
• Border Force
• Department for Education