SLF grantees MiCLU are co-authors of the Council of Europe’s latest handbook “How to convey child-friendly information to children in migration: a handbook for frontline professionals.” Designed for use by frontline professionals working with children in migration in Europe, the handbook contains practical tips, golden rules, and examples of promising practice. Importantly, the voice of children is heard […]
There has been very little consideration to date of the specific impact of Brexit on children. Nor has there been much effort to consider the very distinct implications of Brexit for children living in the devolved nations of the UK. This is in spite of the fact hat children represent one fifth of the European Union (EU) […]
The Strategic Legal Fund has recently awarded three grants. Based on a scoping report evidencing the need, Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit been awarded £14,237 to attempt to resolve the legal situation for young people assessed as over 18 and moved between local authorities. The proposal seeks funding for policy work for improved guidance and for pre-litigation […]
The Strategic Legal Fund is delighted to announce that Lesley Irvine of Axiom Advocates in Edinburgh joins the expert panel member. Lesley specialises in public and commercial law with an emphasis on human rights, EU and equalities law. She has a particular interest in and recent experience of successfully litigating the public sector equality duty in section […]
Strategic Legal Fund grantees Commons Legal have put out a call for evidence to gather views from practitioners and to conduct pre-litigation research into the controversial measure they believe may impact on the perception of fairness in the criminal justice system. Read Audrey Cherryl Mogan‘s blog post in The Justice Gap below Anyone who has witnessed criminal proceedings will be familiar with […]
Funded by the Strategic Legal Fund, Project 17 and Deighton Pierce Glynn have conducted pre-litigation research into the practice of ’embedding’ immigration officers in local authority children’s services departments. At least 9 different local authorities have been using this approach of late. Based on their research, they are concerned that not only does the presence […]
One additional grant was awarded in the September round. Migrant Legal Project – £4,611 Migrant Legal Project has been awarded funds for research and preparation of briefing materials to call for a reversion of the Civil Legal Aid Regulations which came into force 1st September. These act as a barrier to legally aided clients moving their […]
In 2014 the SLF funded research into systemic obstacles to children’s registration as British citizens. See the report here. Recently, estimates have shown that as many as 400 children have been denied citizenship for failing to satisfy the good character requirement since it was introduced in 2006. Read more in the Guardian piece. The Project for Registering Children as […]
“You spend your entire life saving towards a goal that’s constantly moving forward” It takes 10 years and 4 costly Home Office applications to become a UK citizen. Watch this new video by Let Us Learn and funded by SLF to find out the impact this is having on young UK migrants.
One additional grant was awarded in the July round. Commons Law CIC – £7,636 Commons, a not-for-profit criminal law firm, has been awarded funds to carry out preliminary research into the expansive reach of the government’s immigration control and hostile environment policy into the criminal justice system. Since November 2017, there has been a requirement for defendants […]