United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 123990
Asylum: Young People
Introduced
16 January 2023
Last action
19 January 2023 · Answer
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Answered
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Asylum
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19 January 2023
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure age disputed children are safeguarded within the asylum system.
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16 January 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure age disputed children are safeguarded within the asylum system.
Source: Commons
19 January 2023
Answer
There are clear safeguarding issues which arise if a child is inadvertently treated as an adult, and equally if an adult is wrongly accepted as a child and placed in accommodation with younger children to whom they could present a risk. It is therefore of...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-01-16/123990
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1567074
- uk · wq-1567074 · source updated 19 January 2023