Refugees: Children
(asked on 24th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they propose to accommodate and rehabilitate future child refugees in the UK.
This question was answered on 7th December 2016
Unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children who are not reunited with family are accommodated by a local authority and the child will become legally looked-after under Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 (or equivalent devolved legislation).
This means that they will be safeguarded and have their welfare promoted in the same way as any other looked after child.