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skip navigation Save the Children and The Separated Children in Europe Programme Position Paper on: Returns and Separated Children 
With the aim of informing the drafting of a new EU Directive on Returns, SCEP and Save the Children’s Brussels Office prepared a Position Paper on Return and Separated Children. This position paper outlines good practice with regards to the best interests of the child, decision making and procedures for return. [Adobe PDF, 244 Kb]

 

 

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skip navigation Children's participation: Report of three participation workshops with Separated Children in Italy, Sweden and The Netherlands
Workshops with separated children were run in three countries as part of thework of the Separated Children in Europe Programme (SCEP) in 2003. Thisprogramme is made up of a network of NGOs across 28 countries in Europe,and UNHCR colleagues. The workshops were part of series of activities tobuild capacity within the network of NGOs and to empower young separatedchildren, and were funded by the European Refugee Fund. [Adobe PDF, 156 Kb]

 

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skip navigation Report: Separated Children in Europe: Policies and Practices in European Union Member States: a Comparative Analysis
Save the Children has commissioned this report through the Programme’s NGO steering group. It focuses on what has changed in the law, policy and practice within 14 European Union member states, since the preparation of Ruxton’s ‘A Programme for Action’.Author: Terry Smith [Adobe PDF, 198 Kb]

 

 

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skip navigation Report: Separated Children and EU Asylum and Immigration Policy 2003
The report aims to provide an accessible study of the policy changes affecting separated children which have occurred since 1999 at EU level, and further changes which can be anticipated within EU asylum and immigration policies.Author: Sandy Ruxton [Adobe PDF, 739 Kb]

 

 

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skip navigation Report: Workshop on Age Assessment and Identification
The main objectives of the workshop are twofold:
1) Competence-building; to strengthen capacities on separated children related to age assessment and identification
2) Promote cross-border cooperation and a common understanding of the issues across borders [Adobe PDF, 407 Kb]

 

 

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Bibliography on Separated Children
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 Report: Separated Children, Exile and Home-Country Links: The Example of Somali Children in the Nordic Countries

skip navigation Save the Children organisations in the Nordic countries have been developing projects to facilitate home-country links and voluntary repatriation for separated young people from the Horn of Africa, more particularly, Somalia. These initiatives have been a response to the perception that many separated African children in the Nordic countries are struggling to integrate and could benefit from opportunities to renew contact with their home country and explore the potential for future return.
Author: Wendy Ayotte [Adobe PDF, 483 Kb]

 

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UNHCR Detention Guidelines

Author: UNHCR

 

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skip navigation Lobby Guide
The Lobby Guide has been produced to enable people to access the main information on the European asylum harmonisation process and to get information on when and how policy, relevant to separated children, is being developed. Each section shortly present the European instruments with an implication on separated children and the policy proposals presented by the competent European Union's (EU) institutions. Focus is made on the implications of each instruments and on advocacy strategy to best support the rights of separated children within the EU harmonisation process. [Adobe PDF, 243 Kb]

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skip navigation CEBS Summary Report
The report on the situation of separated children in Central Europe and the Baltic States is a comparison study of 11 country assessments conducted by NGOs and UNHCR from August 2000 to March 2001.Countries involved are: Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The main observation of this report is that despite significant gaps, national legislation in these countries include many of the necessary provisions for the care of the small number of separated children seeking asylum. However, practice often falls short of the international standards. To improve the situation of separated children in this region the report makes recommendations for best practice and calls for greater efforts from the governments to recognise the importance of this issue. Author: William Spindler [Adobe PDF, 331 Kb]

 

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skip navigation Training Guide
The Training Guide is based on the Separated Children in Europe Programme Statement of Good Practice. It has been produced for officials and professionals who will facilitate and organise training on the issue of separated children. The Guide aims at increase the awareness and understanding of the Separated Children in Europe Programme Statement of Good Practice; locate this good practice within the international, regional and national legal instruments and policies; examine the role of the agencies in promoting and ensuring good practice; promote changes in existing practices and policies and the adoption of the Statement of Good Practice and encourage and facilitate inter-agency co-operation. [Adobe PDF, 827 Kb]

Training Guide PowerPoint presentation
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skip navigation Separated Children Seeking Asylum in Europe: A Programme for Action by Sandy Ruxton  [Adobe PDF, 379 Kb]

The summary report is a comparative study of the law, the practices and the policies existing in 16 western European countries. A central conclusion is that, although there are examples of good practice, the particular needs and rights of separated children within the asylum policy are generally little understood or acknowledged.

 

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