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Chapter 2 | Unaccompanied or Separated Children Arriving in the United Kingdom
15 See the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements)
Order 1993 SI 1993/1813 and the Channel Tunnel
(Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994 SI 1994/1405
and the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum (Juxtaposed
Controls) Order 2003 SI 2003/2818.
16 The children who were being referred to Kent Social
Services at the time of this research were either children
who had applied for asylum at the point at which they
entered the U.K. at the port of Dover, or those who
were later found in lorries or arrested after alighting
from lorries after these lorries went through immigration
controls at Dover but were still in Kent. Therefore
it did not include children who were smuggled in with
agents and subsequently applied for asylum.
17 Charles Watters, European Centre for Migration and
Social Care, Sociology and Social Research, University
of Kent. “Avenues of Access and the Parameters of Care:
Reflections on Reception Procedures for Unaccompanied
Asylum Seeking Children at a Port of Entry,” in
The Asylum Seeking Child in Europe. Ed. Hans E. Anderson,
Henry Ascher, Ulla Bjornberg, Marita Eastmond
and Lotta Mellander. Göteborg University, 2005.
18 Contact was made with practitioners in Wales and
Northern Ireland, but no substantive interviews were
able to be carried out with them due to their unavailability.
However, there were relatively few unaccompanied
or separated children in these two countries.
Immigration and Asylum Department at Browell
Smith Solicitors in Newcastle. 2004.
25 Based on the experiences of a small number of barristers
and solicitors who regularly represented trafficked
children.
26 Immigration Rules HC 395, para 297(i)(f).
27 Immigration Rules HC 395, para 57.
28 Immigration Rules HC 395, para 316A.
29 The government department responsible for intercountry
adoption.
30 Immigration Rules HC 395, para 40.
31 Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, s10.
32 This could constitute a breach of Article 4 of the
European Convention on Human Rights and create
a situation where the child might even seek protection
under the Refugee Convention.
33 Which s105 of the Children Act 1989 defines as a grandparent,
brother, sister, uncle or aunt, or step-parent.
34 Individuals who are not the parent of a child can obtain
parental responsibility by applying for a residence order
under s10 of the Children Act 1989, or by becoming
his or her guardian under s5 of the Children Act 1989.
35 Arising from s67 of the Children Act 1989.
36 Sheffield City Council. Private Fostering Placements.
19 Immigration Rules HC 395.
20 Interview with Liz Barratt, a solicitor at Bindman
& Partners, London. 2004.
21 In these cases the unaccompanied or separated children
were usually told by the parent that he or she
would be returning to collect them later. Whether
this was the true intention of the parent was never
clear to the child when subsequently the parent did
not return.
22 There is presently an ASC in Croydon and another in
Liverpool.
23 Child from Chad who was interviewed in depth for
this research and who was subsequently granted
refugee status.
24 Interview with Katherine Henderson, head of the
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