We are Young Leaders. We come from three groups led by young refugees and asylum seekers: Safe Passage Young Leaders, The KRAN Youth Forum and Hummingbird Young Leaders.
Together, we are a group of 26 young people from different backgrounds working together for a better future for young refugees and asylum seekers.
We are a community of people with experience of migration and the asylum system, brought together by humanity, and we are working to protect and defend human rights.
We are a voice for the voiceless. We have high hopes that together we can make a change.
We believe that the Government needs to make fundamental changes in policy to ensure that people fleeing war and persecution can access safe routes to sanctuary. Through a series of group workshops and discussions, we have worked together to agree on the following list of eight recommendations.
OUR KEY RECOMMENDATIONS:
Act fast to save lives, by providing more safe routes to sanctuary for refugees.
Offer the same protection to people fleeing war and persecution regardless of how they travelled to the UK.
Agree a deal with the EU to strengthen family reunion. The UK should work closely with countries in the EU to ensure the process is faster and smoother.
Make urgent changes to refugee family reunion under the UK’s Immigration Rules*. Ensure that all refugees have the right to be reunited with their family members, no matter how they entered the UK.
Expand the proposed resettlement scheme to other countries beyond the Middle East, including Africa and Europe.
Introduce a new route to the UK specifically for unaccompanied children from Europe.
Listen to those directly affected before taking decisions that have an impact on so many lives.
We invite the Government to meet with us and others with lived experience of these issues to discuss our recommendations in more detail.