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
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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
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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
