Resource Type: Children

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Working Group on Children

ILPA documents | Key Documents

ILPA Response to the Government’s Consultation on Earned Settlement (9 February 2026)

ILPA submitted the below response to the Government’s public consultation on Earned Settlement on 9 February 2026.

Briefing | Children

CSEL Briefing: Key factors when interviewing unaccompanied children seeking asylum

Dr Zoe Given-Wilson and Professor Amina Memon at the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law (CSEL), Royal Holloway, University of London, have produced a briefing for ILPA on […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Register child under 18 as British citizen (form MN1) (9 January 2026). 

Information on processing times added.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Evaluation of the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) (8 January 2026). 

First published and added to Migration research and analysis.

Home Office Documents | Children

Home Office Update Re: National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) Evaluation (8 January 2026)

Please see the below update from the Home Office regarding the independent evaluation of the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) which was published on 8 January 2026 and which can […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Safeguarding and consent issues: HMPO caseworker guidance (28 May 2025).

Replaced with updated version – updates are listed in the guidance.

ILPA documents | Children

ILPA Letter to the Home Office Re: De Facto Adopted Children in Work and Other Immigration Routes (13 May 2025)

ILPA sent a letter to Sam Worby, Head of Simplification and Systems Unit at the Home Office, on 13 May 2025 regarding an issue concerning adopted children of individuals on […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Registration as a BOTC – children: caseworker guidance (10 April 2025).

Guidance updated with new sections on section 17(1) setting out the scenarios where a child should normally be registered.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Apply for permission to stay in the UK as a child of a close relative with protection status in the UK: FLR(P) (10 April 2025).

Updated form FLR(P) to reflect the updated fee which came into force on 9 April 2025.