Important intervention by Baroness Lister & summary of just how dangerous it is when children are wrongly assessed as adults

Kicking off our first of many advocacy workshops. Today we are back in Cardiff at WCIA where we’ll be discussing the experiences of the Somali community during the Covid 19 pandemic. Take a look at our schedule 👇

Thanks to MigrantsLawProject and Sonal Ghelani for your hard work on this case.

daaroyouth.org.uk/project-lead Fantastic opportunity to work with this amazing organisation. Please share

In the last year 263 unaccompanied young people attended our weekly injera club. We have served over 1400 home-cooked traditional meals. We are building community + providing a safe space for young people to leave their worries behind. Please support us localgiving.org/charity/daaro-…

The next session of the #RefugeeMentalHealth and Place conference is looking at solidarities and the role of #networks. What role can researchers play and how can they work with #community organisations? Led by Elaine_Chase Rachel H. Tribe and Sohail Jannesari.

This is the final week we are accepting applications for our Project Lead role! We are looking for an experienced person to help lead our organisation into the next chapter. Please share!

Deeply concerning news that teenage boys have been locked up in detention and are awaiting deportation to Rwanda. What kind of age assessment did these teens go through ?

This is the reality that the government wants to obscure. When they say that many asylum-seekers are adults pretending - they don't mention that 100s are later found to have been children all along and brought into care. These children should not be pawns in a political game!

Just can’t get my head around how people can treat their fellow human beings in this appalling way. I certainly never expected to witness in this country. It’s abhorrent.

We and partner orgs have written to the Home Office about the #Rwanda policy. It's crucial that young people who have had their age assessed as over 18 can obtain legal advice and are protected while they challenge the decision childrenssociety.org.uk/rwanda-response

🚨BREAKING🚨 Nobody will fly to Rwanda tonight 🎉 WE did this together! From protesters on the streets, to ppl chipping in to legal cases, to 1000s of emails & calls We know the govt won't be giving up. So let's give this everything we've got, starting now. Together we can win

Thank you so much to all our speakers and to the young people at Shpresa Programme for such a thought-provoking and inspiring day yesterday #StillWalkingATightrope Garden Court Chambers Croydon Drop In Elaine_Chase Helen Stalford John Stokes 🧡 @edatahiraj

📢Join us for Migration Comicon on 30/06/2022!📢 Alongside PositiveNegatives and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), we have a day of talks, film showings, and workshops encouraging collaboration between research, education, and the arts. RVSP instructions and details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/rsvp-for-mig…

Awesome to see our animation Dear Habib Becoming Adult Majid Adin Nando Sigona Elaine_Chase PositiveNegatives which featured in Imperial War Museums displacement exhibition being discussed at Migration Leadership Team Comicon event National Geographic Society #impact Arts and Humanities Research Council Economic and Social Research Council

"We have seen children self-harming because they’re so worried and anxious about being sent to Rwanda... the Home Office didn’t seem to [have] any serious desire to exercise their duty of care, particularly in relation to children..." independent.co.uk/news/uk/rwanda…

We are very saddened to hear of the murder of 20-year-old Eritrean care-leaver Bereket Solomon. We are shocked by the comment from Herts Police that presumes the guilty party are "the young Eritrean community of which Bereket was a part." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

🎞 Filming day kicking off UCL with young people & researchers for #LivesOnHoldOurStoriesTold Shpresa Programme Elaine_Chase