'Youth Support Collective’, a group of young people with lived experience of age assessments by the Home Office, has collaborated with @refugeecouncil.bsky.social and GMIAU to create a guide to support others going through the process, and social workers.

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Thank you to @ein-website.bsky.social for covering our report and helping to share the young people's voices 💚

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They wanted their voices to be heard directly by the Home Secretary, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social and for their experiences, captured in our new report, to be the drivers of necessary change.

❗Read our report: “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office.

✍️ Alongside our new report - young people from GMIAU’s All4One group have written to Yvette Cooper about their experiences of being wrongly age assessed as adults at the UK border, how it made them feel, and what needs to change.

🔗 Read their letter in full (link in bio): gmiau.org/letter-to-th...

This new report from @gmiau.bsky.social highlights how Home Office policies need to safeguard children by acknowledging that their practices are resulting in the wrongful placement of children in adult accommodation and recommends measures that can be put in place to urgently prevent further harm.

At GMIAU, we see the harm this causes every day. We listen to the young people living through it - we know it can’t continue.

Their lives are being put in danger. It is avoidable, and without change the lives of more young people will be on the line.

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📣 This report reveals what life is like in these hotels, how children end up there, and the urgent support they need to escape harm.

✅It also offers clear recommendations for the Home Office, accommodation providers, and local authorities to prevent further harm and improve support.

🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.

These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.

The All4One Youth Group had a day out yesterday - a walk in the Peak District near Edale 🥾
16 young people, who all arrived in the UK as unaccompanied children, went on the trip. They said:
"It was a beautiful day and we had a great time".
"It was the first time I have felt happy in a while."❤️

🏚️ In one year, 80 children have died in the UK living in temporary accommodation.

It’s time to treat housing as a human right.
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