Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) translation services and (b) other specialist provisions the Government provides to unaccompanied asylum seeking children from Eritrea.

All unaccompanied asylum seeking children, including those from Eritrea, are provided with an interpreter where necessary, access to legal advice, and are referred to the Refugee Council children’s panel.

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are placed in the care of local authority children’s services and have access to the same support as all other looked after children.