Age Assessment Training & Consultancy Services
Our experienced team deliver unique specialist training and consultancy services for professionals working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC), to improve the services your agency provides to separated migrant children. We can support your service to ensure your policies and practice are case law compliant, and trauma-informed, keeping young people at the heart of your provision. Discover how to reduce risk and improve outcomes for children and Local Authorities in our training courses which is run by age assessment experts. Our training covers the theoretical and practical tools necessary to maximise the effectiveness of your work through our consultancy service and, or training courses. Whether your service wants to build capacity, make your age assessments more robust or a focus UASC processes, we can discuss your requirements and tailor the training to suit your service needs.
Consultancy Services
Our specialist Consultancy service will aim to assist you in meeting your statutory obligations. We recognise that Local Authorities are under immense pressure throughout Children and Young People’s Services, and we understand how complicated it can be to navigate an asylum system alongside their Looked After Children statutory responsibilities. We can:
❖ Write or update your age assessment, triple track planning and Leaving Care policies
❖ Provide operational guidance using best practice from around the UK and EU
❖ Undertake specialist immigration assessments such as age assessments and human rights assessment
❖ Function as an expert witness
Age Assessment Training
We provide Age Assessment training to social workers, team managers, and professionals conducting Merton Compliant age
assessments in England, Scotland, and Wales. Our age assessment training covers all aspects of the age determination process, from making decisions at initial points of
contact, through to writing assessments that stand up to scrutiny. Through our innovative approach of theoretical and practical training, we support practitioners to build confidence,
increase their knowledge and skills providing them with the tools they need to complete robust, case law compliant age assessments. Whether you are new to conducting age
assessments or would like to refresh your previous training, our Age Assessment training courses will enable you to approach age assessments using up to date case law,
best practice guidance and trauma-informed approaches.
Our Training cover topics such as:
❖ The background and context of age assessments
❖ Why and when to conductAge Assessment
❖ Awareness of the Unaccompanied Minors and their journey from the point of entry into the UK until they asylum claim is resolved.
❖ Process of Age Assessment
❖ Key contacts and organisationsfor age assessment enquiries
❖ Current topics and legal challenges including developments in case law.
❖ Responding to Pre-Action Protocol letters
❖ Age assessment reforms as set out within the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 including previous Acts such as the Borders,Citizenship and
Immigration Act 2009; Modern Slavery Act 2015 and otherstatutesfor regional areassuch as Scotland and Wales
