Age Assessments Are Still Not Working: Learn From the Young Survivors Who Have Experienced Age Disputes

The Baobab Centre in collaboration with Freedom from Torture hosted a pre-launch webinar for Ending the Silence. Here is a recording where you can hear directly from the young survivors that contributed to Ending the Silence, along with leading experts about the challenges and evidence. You can listen to the recording here:

You can hear more from young people who have experienced age disputes in the UK by pre-ordering Ending the Silence. This book brings together testimonies, experiences and art work from 30 young people who were age disputed when they arrived in the UK.

As discussion around age assessment continued and reports showing the Home Office is continuing to roll out use of AI in assessment, it is more important than ever to put human voices of young survivors at the centre of the ongoing discussion.

Age disputes have a detrimental and lasting impact on young survivors. You can join us today in emailing to Shabana Mahmood, Anna Turley, Dame de Souza and your local MP to demand for fairer age assessments.

Here are 6 key recommendations that the government could do immediately to improve age assessments.