Alongside 121 organisations, we're backing two vital amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, debated tomorrow in the Lords.

Calling for:

- A duty on Ministers to consider children’s rights

- Mandatory CRIAs

Led by @crae_official, @UNICEF_UK and @NSPCC
bit.ly/3VIROGF

Last year, Baobab saw a 57% increase in casework sessions.

Public services, education and employment are being made harder to access, so our young people need more support.

But, we're up for the challenge. 💪

See our Casework Support Summary 2024, for more:
www.baobabsurvivors.org/casework-sup...

😀Come work with us!😀

We are looking for a full-time Office Manager (with clinical admin responsibilities).

We are seeking an exceptional candidate with office management experience to join our dynamic and growing admin team.

Please apply here: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/the-bao...

Recording of our Baobab Talk, "Towards a UNCRC-Compliant Asylum System in the UK: New Ideas for Better Practice," now on Spotify!

open.spotify.com/show/2nilcq3...

w/ insights from Dr. Ruth Brittle and Rabia Nasimi on children's rights and the UK asylum system.

#BaobabTalks #UNCRC #Asylum #Podcast

Do you have experience advocating for vulnerable young people to access their rights and entitlements?

Are you a fighter? 💪

We are looking for a Casework volunteer to start asap with us.

👉 Details on our volunteering page here: www.baobabsurvivors.org/about/jobs/

Volunteer hire!

We are looking for a Volunteer Office Assistant to support the admin team throughout the summer. Key months we are looking for support is June, July, and August.

👉 Check our website www.baobabsurvivors.org/about/jobs/

and come work with us!

With 110+ sector orgs we are calling for children’s rights to be embedded in UK law- and policymaking. #ChildrensWellbeingBill
We want the Lords to:
• Impose a statutory duty on Ministers
• Create Mandatory CRIAs
Led by @crae_official, @UNICEF_uk & @NSPCC
bit.ly/42CRDkw
#ChildRights #UNCRC

Vital new report from @helenbamber.bsky.social & the RMCC on how age determination at border is broken.

The Home Office has a legal duty to safeguard children -- not to determine anyone's age.

All children with no parental support, regardless of nationality, need care.

Curious where INews get this information -- if anyone has an official source clarifying this. Lots of very worried people in our community.

The bullying of some of the most vulnerable people in our society simply never stops, does it.

The young people in our community all arrived as isolated minors, terrified, and scarred by their experiences. They deserve the simple chance of rebuilding a life here -- not more targeted cruelty.

Everything the court found as wrong with the age-assessment process appears in the testimonies of the young people of our community, as you can read in our recent report: www.baobabsurvivors.org/the-experien...

😠 Child said to be adult after check on "physical appearance"

😠 Child detained before full age assessment done

😠 NAAB's age assessment process "adversarial"

👍Court uses s99 of 1933 Children Act to overturn age decision.

9 months of a child's life wasted:
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/home-office-...

35% of Baobab young people have been age disputed – wrongly in (so far!) 64% of the cases.

Read our latest report on the social and mental health impacts age disputes have had on their lives: www.baobabsurvivors.org/the-experien...

Their stories are shocking—but they are real.

💡 10 recommendations to ministers, based on their experiences of asylum and care systems as young people who arrived unaccompanied.

Make 2025 the year government starts to listen to young people.🙏

With our community's best wishes for optimistic resilience for 2025, we are happy to share a short leaflet produced by our young community members.

--> "Listen to us: 10 points to reform the UK asylum system"

Their recent report on “Trauma-informing the asylum process” here: eprints.soton.ac.uk/487622/1/TIP...

“Age assessments are an attack on young people’s identity”
says Prof. Kreppner (Developmental Psychology) in this video presenting research she is working on with Dr. Ingi Iusmen at @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social

Full video here: vimeo.com/notwfilms/re...

More on children being not just accommodated with adults but imprisoned as adults in the UK and dire safeguarding issues that arise as a result:

👉 Refugee Council's Forced Adulthood report (Jan. 2024): www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/information/...

Baroness Lister referencing a policy roundtable she convened on 20 Nov., and where we were able to raise concerns about visual age assessments conducted on arrival by the Home Office.

A direct consequence of such practice is indeed children in adult accommodation as is by now well documented.

And we are also on Instagram: www.instagram.com/baobabsurviv...

and Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Hello BlueSky 👋

Happy to join the #Xodus and this new community.

Our reasons here: www.baobabsurvivors.org/goodbye-x-tw....

Looking to continue here informing debates about unaccompanied young refugees in the UK – warm and involved care are what children need, not more hostility.

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