Asylum: up to 400 refugee children stuck in France, lawyers say

Bar’s human rights committee says the children’s asylum applications have not had proper decisions and condemns government’s limits on Dubs scheme

Hundreds of unaccompanied children claiming to have relatives in Britain are stranded in France where their asylum cases are not being actively considered, senior human rights lawyers have said.

A study by the human rights committee of the bar (BHRC), released a year after the demolition of the Calais refugee camp, warns that as many as 400 children are trapped in France and are still vulnerable to trafficking, abuse and disease.

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