Councils are not sure about what services they are obliged to provide for asylum-seeking children, the government's joint committee on human rights was told last week.
Giving evidence on the UK's implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights co-ordinator Jennifer Turpie said some councils in Scotland assumed asylum-seeking children were not entitled to their support.
"If the government agreed asylum-seeking children are as entitled to rights as other children this would streamline the provision of services to them," Turpie said.
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