Children
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"Starve Them Out" - Does Every Child Really Matter? August 2005
This article analyses Section 9 of the Immigration and Asylum (Treatments of Claiments etc) Act which gives the Home Office powers to terminate all welfare support to asylum seeking families deemed to be in a position to leave the UK.
Safeguarding Children - Commission of Social Care Inspection, 2005
This review identifies and analyses evidence relating to how well all children are safeguarded. Chapter 7 pays particular attention to children seeking asylum (PDF).
Please click on the links below to download copies of The Refugee Children's Consortium: Document 1 (PDF) Document2 (PDF)
"My Mum is My Best Friend - asylum seeker and refugee families in Glasgow" 2004
Save the Children have been supporting young asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow for the past five years since they have been dispersed to Scotland. As a core component of our work, we have monitored the experiences and concerns of these children and their families through research activities. This research was designed as qualititive study with a representative sample of young refugees/asylum seekers and their parents or adult carers living in Glasgow.
CARIS website - Save the Children and Glasgow University
Provides information for children and young asylum seekers in Scotland. The site is divided into Young Persons, Family and Legal sections. Advice is given on health, education, work and family issues. There is also a thorough section on legislation and the asylum process.
"Ringing the Changes - the Impact of guidance on the use of Sections 17 and 20 of the Children's Act 1989 to support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children" Refugee Council, January 2005
Report investigating the impact that changes to the provision for unaccompanied asylum seeing children in January 2003 has had on local authorities (PDF).
Child Rights Information Network
International network providing information for organisations and individuals working for child rights.
"No Place for a Child" Save the Children, March 2005
Save the Children's report on Children in UK immigration detention. Concludes that children should not be detained for over seven days and calls the government to review it's practice.