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

这项研究建议探索在英格兰东北部如何保护寻求庇护的儿童(AASC)，该地区是英国寻求庇护人数比例最高的地区。虽然学术界对如何最好地保护寻求庇护的无人陪伴的儿童越来越感兴趣，但在地方和全国范围内关于保护AASC的研究存在差距，由于移民和庇护政策的治理，AASC的需求和权利是独特的，当他们与家人在一起时。社会工作者依靠有效的多机构工作来保护儿童，依靠及时共享信息和多机构保护计划。社会工作从业者还需要深入了解管理社会福利权利的立法，以便评估和引导向家庭提供的支持。虽然AASC被排除在许多主流服务之外，他们对英国公民的权利也不同，但由于研究方面的差距，目前尚不清楚社会工作者如何解决这些差异。通过采访具有难民身份的父母、社会工作从业者、内政部签约住房提供者和非政府组织，以及通过英格兰北部难民服务获得的数据，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者如何保护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.