Specific campaign aims

Specific Aims:

Improve processes

• To call for the streamlining of procedures to make it easier to
  access grants to help those seeking refuge and in need
• Community Care wants to see improved procedures for
  dealing with refugee applications to minimise the number of wrong
  decisions

Bring an end to unjustified/degrading
detention

• To demand an end to the detention of children seeking refuge
  and ensure they are treated according to international human rights
  legislation and the Children Act 1989
• To call on government to end the detention of asylum seekers in
  prison conditions when they have committed no crime

Protection of children

• To urge all local authorities to include specific reference to
  children seeking refuge when devising and evaluating local policies
  on child protection, social inclusion and child and adolescent
  mental health services
• To call on local authorities to make full assessments of
  unaccompanied children seeking refuge and ensure those deemed
  “at risk” are dealt with appropriately and not just
  treated as “in need”
• To urge the government to ensure the development of proper care
  plans for children and young people seeking refuge at the earliest
  opportunity
• To make sure that unaccompanied children seeking refuge are not
  dispersed at 18 against their best interests 

Racism and tolerance

• To call on national and local politicians to cut out
  racist/inflammatory language and to meet with asylum seekers and
  refugees in their area to hear their stories
• To encourage both professionals and politicians to highlight
  the valuable contribution asylum seekers and refugees can make to
  the community
• To urge the home office to monitor racist incidents and
  verbal/physical abuse against asylum seekers and refugees