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Subject: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children

Reference: LBR-FOI-00677

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I would be grateful if you could please provide the following information:

  • In 2022 (the calendar year), how many individuals claiming to be children (aged under 18) were referred to your children's services department having been assessed to be an adult by the Home Office and placed in adult asylum accommodation or detention?

  • Of those referred, how many were subsequently assessed by your children's services department to be under 18?

Response

None Disclosed - 6 February 2023

The information you have requested is not held by London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. You may wish to submit your request to Achieving for Children (AfC) who provide Children's Services on behalf of the Council.

AfC can be contacted directly with FOI requests via the following link: https://www.achievingforchildren.org.uk/freedom-of-information/

Please note that our responses were accurate to the best of our knowledge at the time of release, and have not subsequently been updated. This information should be considered an historical record only.