Flaws in the Home Office's approach to determining the age of new arrivals led to at least 1,300 refugee children being placed in unsupervised adult accommodation or detention between January 2022 and June 2023, according to new research.
It also warns that measures in the Illegal Migration Act could lead to hundreds of children being wrongly removed from the UK and sent to Rwanda. Many may also be sent other countries where they may be at serious risk without ever having interacted with child protection professionals or a chance to challenge the Home Office's decision, the report added.
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