Safeguarding asylum seeking children who remain with their families: a North East case study in the United Kingdom.

本研究旨在探讨在英国寻求庇护者比例最高的英格兰东北部地区，陪伴寻求庇护儿童（AASC）是如何得到保护的。虽然学术界对如何最好地保护无人陪伴的寻求庇护儿童越来越感兴趣，但在地方和全国范围内，关于保护AASC的研究都存在差距，由于移民和庇护政策的治理，他们的需求和权利是独一无二的。社会工作者依靠有效的多机构工作来保护儿童，依靠及时的信息共享和多机构保护计划。社会工作从业人员还需要对管理社会福利权利的立法有深入的了解，以便评估和指导家庭可获得的支持。虽然AASC被排除在许多主流服务之外，而且他们的权利与英国公民不同，但由于研究的差距，社会工作者如何解决这些差异仍不清楚。通过与难民身份的父母、社会工作从业人员、内政部合同住房提供者和非政府组织的访谈，以及通过英格兰北部难民服务获取的数据，拟议的研究将创建一个案例研究，探索负责支持英格兰东北部寻求庇护者的从业人员如何保护AASC。

This research proposes to explore how accompanied asylum seeking children (AASC) are safeguarded in the North East of England, an area that houses the highest proportionate number of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. While there has been a growing interest in academia around how to best safeguard unaccompanied asylum seeking children, there is a gap in research both locally and nationally around safeguarding AASC, whose needs and entitlements are unique due to the governance of immigration and asylum policy when remaining with their family. Social workers rely on effective multi-agency working to safeguard children, relying on timely sharing of information and multi-agency protection plans. Social work practitioners are also required to have an in-depth knowledge of the legislation that governs social benefit entitlement, in order to assess and navigate the support available to families. While AASC are excluded from many mainstream services and their entitlements differ to British citizens, it remains unclear as to how social workers address these differences, due to the gap in research. Through interviews with parents with refugee status, social work practitioners, Home Office contracted housing providers and nongovernment organisations, in addition to data accessed via the North of England Refugee Service, the proposed research will create a case study exploring how practitioners responsible for supporting asylum seekers in the North East of England safeguard AASC.