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Latest News
An Update from our Partner in Calais
With support from RYS, ECPAT-France has been delivering its PROTECT project in Calais since August 2021. The project furthers the previous work of RYS and provides social, material and legal support to unaccompanied children on the street in Calais, and makes referrals to other specialist services.…
Important Changes at RYS
Refugee Youth Service has been a Collective Fund under the charitable umbrella of Prism the Gift Fund since 2017. The decision to operate this way was made, as the Prism the Gift Fund website states, in order to be provided with the administration, governance and charitable expertise needed to…
Journey with an Unaccompanied Child shortlisted for the Frontline Innovation Award
The good news at RYS continues to come! We are delighted to share that we have had our unique and innovative capacity-building training recognised by the Frontline Innovation Award. Roseanna, the project lead and former Frontline Fellow has been shortlisted for their development of the “Journey…
Welcoming Massi to the RYS Team
Journey with an Unaccompanied Child is an interactive training delivered both online and in person, which shares seven years of expertise gained from supporting children and young people on the move across Europe. The participants follow real children as they are forced to leave home alone, travel…
Impact Reports & Resources
Good Decision Making in Age Assessments
Young Roots
The Mental Health of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK
Mental Health Foundation
RYS Internship Report: Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors Unlawfully Placed in Adult Accommodations: Challenging the Age Assessment Procedures in the UK
Refugee Youth Service
Forced Adulthood: The Home Office’s incorrect determination of age and how this leaves child refugees at risk.
Humans for Rights Network, Helen Bamber Foundation, Refugee Council
RYS Annual Report 2023
Refugee Youth Service
RYS Annual Summary Report 2023
Refugee Youth Service
No Children in Hotels Impact Report
Refugee Youth Service
Rwanda plan and Illegal Migration Act will increase dangerous journeys and drive refugees underground
Refugee Council
Spotlight On: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Missing from Education
Children’s Commissioner
Disbelieved and denied, Children seeking asylum wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office (April 2023)
Helen Bamber Foundation, Humans for Rights Network, Asylum Aid
“We lost our lives when we arrived here”: Children in the UK’s asylum system (June 2023)
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit
RYS Annual Report 2022
Refugee Youth Service
Annual Report 2021
Refugee Youth Service
Annual Report 2021
Velos Youth
The failure of French authorities to respect, protect and guarantee the rights of at-risk unaccompanied children (UAC)
Refugee Rights Europe
Facing Multiple Crises
Refugee Rights Europe
Northern France Timeline
Refugee Rights Europe
No End In Sight
Refugee Rights Europe
Left Out in the Cold
Refugee Rights Europe
Les Manquements Des Autorites Francaises
Refugee Rights Europe
Annual Report 2020: France
Refugee Youth Service
Annual Report 2020
Refugee Youth Service
Annual Report 2019
Refugee Youth Service
Annual Report 2018
Refugee Youth Service
Six Months On
Refugee Rights Europe
Annual Report 2016: Somebody’s Child
Refugee Youth Service