Child asylum seekers are suffering abuse due to the Home Office and local authorities wrongly classifying them as adults, the Guardian has learned. Laura Gibbons, a solicitor at Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, has challenged children wrongly assessed as adults through the courts many times. Research by the unit found that one 14-year-old child was wrongly assessed as 22. Between July and September last year they dealt with 92 new cases of young people assessed as adults. “There were a few other child asylum seekers at the police station claiming asylum like me.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2019 10:41 UTC