Date: 9th June 2022
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children, Children in situations of exploitation, Armed conflict
Author: Scottish Government

This guidance is for all practitioners involved in the safeguarding of vulnerable children and adults arriving from Ukraine into Scotland. It outlines the approach to identifying, supporting and maximising the safety of these individuals.

Date: 3rd May 2022
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author:

If you work with and support refugee children and families in a professional, voluntary or personal capacity, this resource is just for you. Access advice, guidance, information and training in one place to better understand the rights of children who have been displaced.

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author:

The Global Compact on Refugees and Migration represents a political will and ambition of the international community for more equitable responsibility-sharing of refugees so host communities can get the support they need to help refugees settle into their new communities. This guide looks at what children’s rights protections are set out in the Compact.

Date: 9th December 2020
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Council of Europe

This animated video aims to inform children’s understanding of age assessment procedures and how age assessments should be conducted to respect children’s human rights.

Date: 19th November 2020
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author:

The course focuses on how to care for and protect unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children who are moving across and between countries. It was developed by the University of Strathclyde and CELCIS, and it is available through FutureLearn.

Date: 15th August 2019
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children, Child trafficking
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

The Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS), based at the University of Strathclyde, launches a free online course on unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children next month.

Date: 30th July 2019
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children, Child trafficking
Author: IOM

This volume of the Fatal Journey’s series focuses on missing migrant children – given the growing number of children embarking on journeys that are dangerous and often fatal.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children, Children in situations of exploitation, Child trafficking
Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

The guide aims to strengthen child protection responses and includes a focus on child victims of trafficking and children at risk.

Date: 27th July 2016
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Kopin

This new resource is a set of recommended principles to guide actions concerning children on the move and other children affected by migration, prepared by a large number of experts from UN agencies, academics, donor agencies and civil society organisations.

Date: 20th June 2012
Category: General measures of implementation, Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

This year's European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights annual report chronicles the positive developments made in 2011 as well as the challenges facing the EU and its Member States in the field of fundamental rights, drawing on objective, reliable and comparable socio-legal data.

Date: 13th June 2012
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Scottish Refugee Council

Age assessment guidance aimed at helping vulnerable young asylum seekers get the right support, has been launched by Scottish Refugee Council.

Date: 25th May 2012
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Refugee Council

This report discusses the situation of children detained as part of the asylum process because a decision has been made to treat them as adults.

Date: 28th February 2012
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: The Children’s Society

A new report by The Children's Society reveals alarming levels of destitution among refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children and young people.

Date: 17th January 2012
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Children's Commissioner for England

The Landing in Dover report from Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, discovered that unaccompanied children arriving into Kent were returned to France if they did not apply for asylum straightaway.

Date: 1st August 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Scottish Refugee Council

This leaflet will provide asylum seeeking children with information about their rights if they are currently, or have been looked after by a local authority.

Date: 24th May 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Immigration Law Practitioners' Association

This guide produced by The Immigration law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) focuses on refugee children, but the principles and practices described apply to all migrant children.

Date: 9th May 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Children's Parliament

The need for better recognition of the child's right to play brought the International Play Association (Scotland) and the Children's Parliament together with children across Scotland to talk about what play means to them and how their experience of play could be better.

Date: 1st April 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Young Scot

Young Scot Access All Areas was a three-year inclusion project, which aimed to empower young people from ethnic minority, refugee, asylum seeking and faith groups to influence service provision in their local area, enhance access and promote inclusion.

Date: 11th January 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

This information pack covers a range of important topics, such as asylum-seekers and detention, refugees and social and economic inclusion, refugees and violence, internal displacement, forced returns and stateless persons.

Date: 1st October 2010
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: British Red Cross

The Positive Images toolkit is an educational resource for teachers, youth workers and other educators that can be used to teach young people, aged 12 and over, about migration and development.