Guide for young people In 2020, young people in the All4One youth group, supported by GMIAU, worked together to create a Guide to Age Assessments. This guide was written by young people, for young people, based on their lived experience of having their ages assessed. Through supporting each other as…
This week a new report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) found appalling failings in the Home Office’s age assessment process. At the same time, the Home Office announced they would attempt to start using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assess children’s ages. At GMIAU we recently…
Dear Yvette Cooper, We are a group of young people from the All4One group. We all arrived as unaccompanied children to seek safety in the UK. We were all sent to adult asylum accommodation after having our ages disbelieved by the Home Office. We want to talk to you about…
Over recent years, thousands of children have been wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children are in the UK on their own seeking asylum. Following decisions made by UK border officials that they are “significantly over 18” they have been sent alone to adult asylum accommodation, usually…
“They don’t help, they don’t listen, they’ve got their own answers. They don’t come to understand you” Summary At GMIAU, we support children who have had their ages assessed by the Home Office’s National Age Assessment Board (NAAB). Their experiences have rarely been heard. We spoke to children and found…
Laura Gibbons, GMIAU’s Public Law Solicitor, explains the process of creating the four Young People’s Guides To Age Assessments with the All4One Youth Group.
On the 9th of September, we’re having an online launch. We’ll be publishing our four new guides to the Age Assessment process You can find more details about those materials below, which will be available on our website from the launch date.
Roxanne Nanton is an Age Dispute Advisor at the Refugee Council. Here she talks about her work supporting young people who have their ages disputed and acting as Appropriate Adult in age assessments.
Arman* was age disputed upon arrival to the UK from Iran. He was helped by a solicitor and his age was accepted. He has been granted refugee status and has moved on to independent living after turning 18 years old.
In this guest blog, practitioners at The Children’s Society describe their experiences supporting young people through the age assessments process, and how our guide will be useful. Unaccompanied young people come to the UK seeking safety and an opportunity to continue their lives.