Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which external stakeholders his Department plans to consult as part of the upcoming review and update of statutory guidance for local authorities on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

The Department for Education (DfE) publishes guidance for local authorities on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, which can be found at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656429/UASC_Statutory_Guidance_2017.pdf.

The department is committed to updating this guidance in due course, and will carry out a public consultation which will be available to all external stakeholders when it does so.