The scandal of asylum-seeking youngsters going lacking from Home Office motels (Ministers resist phrases akin to ‘kidnapped’) is an excessive state of affairs. But they aren’t the one youngsters struggling by the hands of the UK’s migration insurance policies. The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Select Committee has not too long ago printed All families matter: An inquiry into family migration.
One strand of our inquiry was the significance of families to society. “Strong, supportive families make for more stable communities”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak remarked not too long ago. We agreed. “We take the welfare of any child who comes into contact with the Home Office incredibly seriously; their well-being is of paramount importance”, Home Secretary Suella Braverman instructed our committee. Sadly this isn’t the regulation, nor does it replicate the experiences reported to us in proof.
Ten years after a significant set of reforms, we got down to assess family migration insurance policies. We discovered that they fail each families and society.
We have been dismayed and upset by plenty of clearly typical tales of families pressured to stay aside; of fogeys having to deliver up youngsters alone till they are often joined by their overseas companions, supplied they earn sufficient. Of youngsters rising up with no father or mother and of families who couldn’t be joined within the UK by aged mother and father from abroad for whom they’re determined to care (no visa was issued in 2021 to individuals in that state of affairs). And of kid refugees who…
