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<h1><span style="color: #f7f6f2;">Resources for Professionals</span></h1><p><span style="color: #f7f6f2;">Read our useful and helpful resources for professionals to help improve your own knowledge or to help others.</span></p>

Resources for Professionals

Read our useful and helpful resources for professionals to help improve your own knowledge or to help others.

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Information on children seeking asylum and volunteering

This is a resource for professionals working with children in the asylum system who are interested in volunteering.

Human Rights Assessments for unaccompanied children seeking asylum

This information about human rights assessments is for local authorities in the North West of England, who are supporting separated children and young people seeking asylum in the UK and care leavers. 

Age assessments in the North West

This information is for local authorities and anyone working either with unaccompanied children seeking asylum or in Home Office asylum accommodation. It details the problems we are seeing for children who are age disputed and the processes that should be followed.

Children’s Asylum Streamlining

This is an information sheet about the Home Office’s Streamlined Asylum Process (SAP) for children.

Guides for social workers: British Citizenship & Annex FM

This is an information about two key guides for social workers, to help them support children in their care to resolve their immigration status.

Referral guide for professionals

This is a guide for professionals who are referring someone to GMIAU’s services.

Supporting care leavers with reporting

This is for local authorities in the North West who are supporting separated children and young people seeking asylum who could be asked to “report” at an immigration centre.

Triple Planning for unaccompanied asylum seeking children

This information is to support social workers and local authorities in the North West who are working with children and care leavers with insecure immigration status. This information is specifically about children in the asylum system.

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Our self-help resources are designed to help you understand processes, complete your own applications, and support others in doing the same.

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