🇺🇦 Ukrainian children at risk of exploitation as Homes for Ukraine opens to minors, warn experts ➡️ Experts have raised safeguarding concerns as the scheme begins granting visas to unaccompanied children
Ukrainian children could be at risk of exploitation as the Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme opens to unaccompanied minors, experts have warned.that more safeguarding measures should be put in place to protect minors who are fleeing the war and that the Government’s guidance for who can sponsor a child is too lax.
But experts in the field believe that unaccompanied children should be placed in specialist foster placements or with trained carers. She also said “proving that someone knew a child prior to the war is not really an adequate safeguard against the level of exploitation and risk around unaccompanied children”.
She urged the government “to revise its approach” and said Barnado’s recommended the use of specialist foster placements. But Jennifer Blair, an immigration lawyer who co founded the Ukraine Advice Project, said she was “positive” about the changes being made to the Homes for Ukraine scheme as she believes the government has done this in response to the applications it has been receiving from unaccompanied minors.
She agreed the government’s guidance is not “overly strict”, but said this is because “it’s important they take a proper, best interest approach to each individual case” and not refuse “when there’s really not much of a concern”.it supported the government taking a case-by-case approach to granting visas to unaccompanied minors arguing that it was important to balance the “competing dangers” of children remaining in Ukraine or other countries alone or bringing them to UK.
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