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New standards launched to improve health and wellbeing for children and young people in care across the UK

13 November 2025

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has published new Initial Health Assessment Delivery Standards.

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Project AEGIS - advancing equity for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees

Project AEGIS is an innovative, multidisciplinary, mixed methods research project, with co-creation with children and young people at its centre. AEGIS aims to answer critical questions about the health, education and social care outcomes of children and young people seeking asylum and refugees (CYP...

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RCPCH responds to worrying health data in latest children's commissioners report on children seeking asylum

30 November 2023

The report highlights several serious health and safeguarding concerns for unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK.

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Health and social workers urge Home Office to reconsider unethical age assessments for children seeking asylum

27 November 2023

Leading paediatricians, dentists and social care workers have written to the Home Secretary urging him to reconsider the use of x-rays as methods of age assessments for children seeking asylum in the UK.

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RCPCH responds to UK Government plans to authorise the use of x-rays in age assessments of children seeking refuge and asylum

14 September 2023

On 12 September 2023, the Government confirmed its plans to authorise the use of x-rays in the age assessment of children and young people seeking asylum in the UK.

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Paediatricians concerned as Illegal Migration Bill receives Royal Assent

20 July 2023

On Thursday 20 July, the Illegal Migration Bill received Royal Assent becoming the Illegal Migration Act.

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Learning lessons from a difficult winter - President's blog

31 March 2023

Camilla has been lobbying for child health at a number of important events this week. She also highlights our newly published Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report and the useful FOMOHub resource.

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RCPCH responds to proposed ‘Illegal Migration Bill’

8 March 2023

On Tuesday 7 March, the Home Office unveiled a Bill which would give the Secretary of State the power to remove persons arriving in the UK by ‘unsafe and illegal routes’ such as those arriving on small boats, without providing such individuals with a chance to make an application for asylum.

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RCPCH responds to Refugee Council’s report ‘The Truth About Channel Crossings’

2 February 2023

The report shows that 20% those who crossed the channel in small boats are children.

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RCPCH responds to EHRC report ‘Children’s rights in Great Britain’

25 January 2023

Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report to the United Nations raises a number of concerns on the health, wellbeing and living standards of children in England and Wales.