Coram Children’s Legal Centre is publishing a new report today looking at age disputes in the UK. Children who arrive alone in the UK are regularly disbelieved about how old they are and can spend many years without access to education or appropriate support, or end up in unsupervised accommodation with adults or in adult immigration detention centres...

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As we see young asylum seekers and refugees receive offers from universities, the excitement is dampened by the fact that for many the eligibility for funding attached to different immigration statuses will make it hard for them to take up these places...

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The UK’s leading homeless charities and a group of dedicated national businesses and networks have joined forces for one common goal – to end youth homelessness. Against a background of an estimated 80,000 young people experiencing homelessness in the UK every year, the End Youth Homelessness alliance aims to lobby local and national government to get homeless young people two life essentials – a home and a job...

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Catch22 National Care Advisory Service, as part of the Care Leavers Coalition, is calling on the government to change the law to give care leavers support up until the age of 25. We have joined forces with six other charities – TACT, Barnardo’s, The Care Leavers Association, The Fostering Network, Voice and The Who Cares? Trust –  to call on the Government to make radical changes to the way that care leavers are supported in England...

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Young people in foster and residential care in Cambridgeshire have made a short film about what it's like and how it feels to enter the care system that is being used as part of a new training course for foster carers and social workers...

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A website for young people in care has been launched in Camden giving them a new way to communicate with the Council. Called Backchat Online, the site offers news, views and information for children in care, care leavers, parents and professionals...

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