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Home Office Family Returns Consultation – our response published 

Withdrawing leaving care support from young people with unresolved status will drive some of the young people we support into homelessness and exploitation – not out of the country. 

03 Jun 2026

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New RMCC Briefing Raises Concerns About the Decline in Asylum Grant Rates for UASCs in the UK

This new briefing from the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) raises concerns about the recent the significant decline in asylum grant rates for UASCs in the UK.

12 May 2026

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New Briefing: Unaccompanied Minors, Mental Health and the ‘Danish Model’

Our briefing asks what the ‘Danish model ’ for asylum policy has meant for unaccompanied children seeking asylum and refuge in Denmark, given the UK's desire to copy their system.

05 Mar 2026

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New RMCC Briefing Raises Concerns About the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB)

This briefing from the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) examines how the National Age Assessment Board affects unaccompanied children.

26 Feb 2026

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Home Office Earned Settlement Consultation – our evidence published

Our submission outlines massive areas of concern for all refugees but even more so for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.

13 Feb 2026

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Asylum accommodation – our evidence published

Publication of our evidence submitted to the Home Affairs committee's inquiry into Asylum accommodation.

13 Mar 2025

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A statement on new Home Office guidance regarding access to citizenship

We stand for non discrimination in access to citizenship and will fight any effort to further marginalize young people seeking refuge in the UK.

14 Feb 2025

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The experiences of age‑disputed young people at the Baobab Centre

Download our latest report - documenting the social and mental health impacts of age disputes on our young people.

03 Jan 2025

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New report on children in Sudan

A new report from Asylos on children and young people in Sudan today.

17 Jun 2024

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General Election: Time to listen to young people

Together with our coalition partners at the Children at the Table campaign, we urge all parties to listen to young people in the coming General Election.

24 May 2024

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Age assessments – Home Office errors leaving children seeking asylum at risk

More than 1,300 children seeking asylum were wrongly assessed as adults by the Home Office between January 2022 and June 2023

24 Jan 2024

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Surviving in Poverty: Life on asylum support

91% of people on asylum support in the UK "don't always have enough money to buy food" a new report finds

07 Dec 2023

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Repeal the Illegal Migration Act

Baobab calls for the immediate repeal of this cruel and unworkable policy

30 Nov 2023

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A statement on the government’s latest anti-refugee and anti-children bill

A message to the Baobab Community: We at the Baobab Centre will always stand by your side and tenaciously defend the rights of young people seeking asylum in the UK...

16 Mar 2023

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Children missing from Home Office hotel accommodation – a letter to Rishi Sunak

Baobab demands an immediate end to the use of hotels as accommodation for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the UK

26 Jan 2023

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A statement on Unaccompanied Minors in the UK Asylum System

Outrage does not begin to cover the range of emotions being felt at the moment in our Baobab community...

03 Nov 2022