Together with more than 60 organisations, we’ve signed an open letter telling the Home Office to stop using racist and faulty AI facial age estimation tech on asylum-seeking children. Click here to show your support now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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In Gran Canaria, Pope Leo met migrants and those who accompany them on one of the world’s deadliest routes — calling for compassion, responsibility and safe pathways.
At JRS UK, we see this dignity every day in the people we walk alongside.
We're alarmed by the government’s proposed asylum support reforms & their impact on stateless people, who are already disproportionately trapped in destitution & legal limbo.
Read our joint statement w/ @jrsuk.bsky.social @enstatelessness.bsky.social & others:
www.asylumaid.org.uk/resources/jo...
We’re grateful to Bishop Paul McAleenan for welcoming our campaign to defend asylum. Together with CSAN and SVP we're calling for a system rooted in dignity and protection.
If you would like to get involved with the Christian Campaign to Defend Asylum head to: www.jrsuk.net/defend-asylum
We echo this call: to move beyond indifference, and to build a society where everyone is recognised as our brother or sister.
Read more: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Since "one in, one out" started, JRS UK and @humansforrights.bsky.social have found that at least 141 age-disputed young people have been detained under the scheme.
At least 64 of these either have subsequently been found to be children by local authorities or are pending further inquiries
The UK Government recently proposed starting forced removals to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a reported increase in human rights violations.
These removals are happening in a context where people cannot access legal representation.
Read our full briefing:
www.jrsuk.net/news/forced-...
Under the "one-in-one-out" scheme there has been an increase in the number of age-disputed children in immigration detention. Urgent change is needed to ensure the protection of children and vulnerable people.
Join us, and @humansforrights.bsky.social in calling for an end to immigration detention.
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At a meeting with migrants and the organisations that rescue and accompany them in Gran Canaria, Pope Leo urges the world not to grow indifferent to ...
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We are deeply alarmed by the UK government’s proposed reforms to asylum support, set out in its consultation on implementing provisions of the Immigration Act 2016.
At a meeting with migrants and the organisations that rescue and accompany them in Gran Canaria, Pope Leo urges the world not to grow indifferent to ...
Young asylum seekers far more likely to be assessed as adults by immigration officers than by social workers
Local authorities deem UK arrivals to be children more than twice as often as border forces, Home Office data shows
Young asylum seekers in the UK are more than twice as likely to be assessed as adults by immigration officers than by social workers, according to home office data.
Between July 2025 and March 2026, 4,320 initial age decisions made by immigration officials found just 1,363 new arrivals (32%) to be children. Continue reading...
The Home Office plans to use AI technology to guess the age of children seeking asylum. This tech is flawed, has a massive error margin, and is less accurate for people of colour. A single mistake cou...
