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Where are the children?
Description: "This report was compiled by Judith Dennis, the Refugee Council Policy Adviser for Unaccompanied Children and Selam Kidane, Refugee Project Consultant for the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering.
The findings of this report mark the results of a jointly conducted mapping exercise on thewhereabouts of unaccompanied refugee children that took place between September 2000 and March 2001.
Both agencies were keen to develop services for refugee children where they were most needed andagreed that a better understanding of the location of refugee children was crucial to this development.
There was much anecdotal evidence to suggest that over the past two years the geographical spread of unaccompanied children had become larger. A mapping exercise was planned, to collate existing information and build on it, in order to give an up to date picture of where the children are. We acknowledge that this is only the beginning of the work. The mapping exercise allowed us to build networks of those working directly with the children. This will help us to keep the information presented in this report up-to-date.
As we see later, the way that unaccompanied children are defined may influence the way statistics are collected on them. This report defines an unaccompanied child as someone who is under 18, not being cared for by their usual caregiver and is seeking asylum in the UK."
Free download in PDF format - 21 pages