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UASC: Age Assessment Guidance

Resources and guidance to assist social workers in completing an age assessment of an unaccompanied asylum seeking child (UASC)

 

For Asylum policy guidance on assessing the age of an applicant when they claim to be a child click here or on the logo.

 

 

For guidance from ADCS to assist social workers and their managers in undertaking age assessments in England click here or on the logo. The information sharing proforma can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

 

For guidance on age assessments from Coram clc click here or on the logo. Download the age assessment full fact sheet below.

 

 

To access the article ‘Asylum age assessments: key advice for social workers’ click here or on the logo.  If you are a member of Community Care you can access full practice guidance here.

Age assessment information sharing proforma between Local Authority and Home Office

Coram CLC Age Assessment Full Fact Sheet.