Migrant Children's Project Newsletter
January 2017
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Voices 2017: a writing competition for children in care
Last year our sister charity Coram Voice launched a writing competition for children in care.This year, Voices returns with up to £100 in prizes and a special category for migrant young people! The competition is open to all young people who are in care or who are care leavers. Entries will be judged by a panel of judges including well-known authors and journalists who have a special interest in the care system or experience of being in care. The competition closes on Tuesday 21 February 2017 at midnight, and you can find the entry form and more information here.
CCLC training gets some real experts!
Last year CCLC recruited and trained young people with experience of the UK immigration system to help us deliver our training programme. If you book a place on training taking place at our London campus in the next few months, it may be co-led by one of our newly accredited Youth Rights Trainers! We're working to develop some new courses on access to education and an introduction to the immigration system, which we hope to deliver in lots of different places for free. If you're interested in booking some training then visit our eventbrite page, or have a question about our Youth Rights Trainers or would like to commission some youth-led training, get in touch at mcp@coramclc.org.uk or call 020 7713 2028.
Opportunities for young people through Coram's Young Citizens programme
Coram, the umbrella charity for Coram Children's Legal Centre (that's us!) are looking for young people who are passionate about using their experiences of making a life in this country to work with and represent the views of more children and young people who want to do the same. That's why they've founded 'young citizens', a new voluntary programme for migrant young people aged 16-25. In return for young people's involvement, they are offering: training and skills development, the opportunity to meet and build friendships with a group of people with shared experiences, and travel and refreshment costs. There's a taster day on 5 February for anyone who is interested - and you can register your interest here.
If you have queries about these or other issues, please contact our advice line on 0207 636 8505 or email mcp@coramclc.org.uk. Our upcoming training courses Our courses can now be booked online - just visit our Eventbrite page!
An introduction to the rights of children and young people in the immigration system
Coram Campus, London, FREE Tuesday 4 April, 2pm - 5pm EU children in care
Coram Campus, London, £35 + VAT Tuesday 14 March, 2pm - 5:30pm The rights and entitlements of young refugees and migrants Coram Campus, London, £70 + VAT Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 10am - 4:30pm Wednesday 12 April 2017, 10am - 4:30pm Tuesday 20 June 2017, 10am - 4:30pm Working with undocumented young people Coram Campus, London, FREE Wednesday 22 February 2017, 9am - 1:30pm [waiting list] Supporting undocumented and NRPF families
Coram Campus, London, £70 + VAT Wednesday 1 March 2017, 10am - 4:30pm The registration of children as British citizens
Coram Campus, London, £25 + VAT Tuesday 18 April 2017, 4pm - 6:30pm For more information and to book, please see our eventbrite page. To commission in-house training for your organisation, please see our website.
New reports and guidance
Better support, better protection: Steps lawyers and guardians can take to better identify and protect trafficked children
ECPAT UK (ReACT project), January 2017
Young People and Migration in the UK: an Overview
Migration Observatory, December 2016
Latest news UK asylum seekers' housing branded 'disgraceful' by MPs
The Guardian, 31 January 2017
Making sure migrant children and young people’s voices are heard
Right to Remain, 27 January 2017
Young Eritreans are victims of poor decision making by British asylum officials
The Conversation, 25 January 2017
Home Office Eritrea guidance softened to reduce asylum seeker numbers
The Guardian, 22 January 2017
UK community refugee scheme has resettled only two Syrian families
The Guardian, 18 January 2017
Wrongly classifying child asylum seekers as adults has cost UK millions of pounds
Buzzfeed UK, 18 January 2017
Human rights campaigners attack Government’s ‘foreign children list experiment’
The Independent, 16 January 2017
Human rights charity warns headteachers over pupil nationality data collection
School's Week, 15 January 2017
UK urged to transfer child refugees from freezing Europe camps
The Guardian, 12 January 2017
Brexit lays bare the brutal reality for the UK’s immigrants
The Guardian, 11 January 2017
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