Migrant Children's Project Newsletter
July 2019
If you used our guidance and resources recently, please take two
minutes to help us improve them by completing our short survey here. 'Normality is a luxury': how limited leave to remain blights young lives  Young migrant activists from Let Us Learn have published a report which lays out the experiences of 14 young people and how the hostile environment and their temporary immigration status have blighted their lives. The report contains vital testimony from young people trapped within the immigration system. Read it in full here. To help maximise the impact of this report, please consider sending it to your MP and tweeting using the hastags #AffordableFeesFairTreatment and #WeBelong. Happy 70th birthday legal aid!  This week legal aid turned 70 years old, and the Ministry of Justice finally published regulations which, once law, will mean separated migrant children in care (no matter what their status) can access legal advice for free. Together with our friends at Just for Kids Law, MiCLU, the Children's Society and Islington Law Centre we've produced a practical briefing on accessing legal aid for these children; read about it here. We've also updated our fact sheets to reflect this change: take a look at our re-written fact sheets on finding an solicitor for a child and legal aid and exceptional case funding. New resources for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in local authority care If you have queries about these or other issues, please contact our advice line at mcpadvice@coramclc.org.uk. Our upcoming training courses Our courses can all be booked online - just visit our Eventbrite page! An introduction to the rights of children and young people in the immigration system
Coram Campus, London Access to education for migrant childrenCoram Campus, London The rights and entitlements of young refugees and migrants Coram Campus, London For more information and to book, please see our eventbrite page. To commission in-house training for your organisation, please see our website. New reports and guidance ‘Normality is a luxury: How limited leave to remain is blighting young lives'
Let Us Learn, July 2019
Six Things Guide for Local Authority Staff
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, June 2019
Good Character Requirements: Draft British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019 - Second Report
UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights, July 2019
Latest news
Home Office rejects immigration detention time limit
BBC News, 31 July 2019
Leave to remain – but no home to remain in after fees treble
The Guardian, 31 July 2019
UK decision to deny EU citizens access to data challenged in court
The Guardian, 23 July 2019
Councils refusing to reveal data of rough sleepers to Home Office
The Guardian, 17 July 2019 Flawed Home Office app stops EU citizen getting settled status
The Guardian, 15 July 2019
The Home Office’s harsh ‘good character’ tests are ruining children’s lives
The Guardian, 10 July 2019
Stop denying citizenship to British-born kids, government told
Free Movement (£), 9 July 2019
"They told me to stop crying at night": How the UK is failing asylum seeking children
Open Democracy, 1 July 2019
Home Office to lift cap on ‘inadequate’ help for trafficking victims
The Independent, 1 July 2019
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Young people from the All4One youth group co-ordinated by the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit have written a 