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A successful year for RYS
It has been another successful year for Refugee Youth Service’s (RYS). Our work throughout 2023 continued to focus on the UK, in response to the alarming number of age-disputed children housed in Home Office hotel accommodations meant for adults. As a result, we launched a new piece of work called…
No Children in Hotels Project: Interim Progress Report
In the summer of 2023 RYS stepped-up its work in the UK in response to the hundreds of age-disputed children living in British Home Office hotel accommodations. The ‘No Children in Hotels Project’ is creating a significant and lasting impact on the lives of children who would otherwise be forgotten…
🌟 Exciting News: New Paid Opportunities to Support Our Work! 🌟
We are thrilled to share an update on our ongoing efforts to assist age-disputed asylum-seeking children in the UK. Thanks to the generous support of the Hilden Charitable Fund, we are expanding our impact through a new initiative that will train people with lived experience of forced migration to…
New Home Office powers to take charge of unaccompanied children; how concerned should we be?
The definition of an ‘unaccompanied child’ is a child who has been separated from their parents/ guardians, or migrates alone fleeing wars or conflicts. In 2022, the UK received 5,152 applications from unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK. Many children arrive in the UK after crossing…
Impact Reports & Resources
RYS Annual Report 2024
Refugee Youth Service
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