More staff training on the cultures of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children would help any expansion of a project that transferred children from the care of Kent Council to authorities in Greater Manchester, a new report says.
The evaluation of the safe case transfer pilot scheme, which the Home Office is believed to be considering as a model for reforms to the care of unaccompanied children, also said further research should study if economies of scale would be achieved by expanding it to a larger group of children.
● An Evaluation of the Safe Case Transfer Pilot Project
Call for training on asylum transfers
August 7, 2006 in Community Care
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