Caring for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people: FULL SERIES

This series of introductory booklets aims to provide information for foster carers and residential care workers who are, or who will be, looking after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people from certain countries. The booklets look in detail at the languages, religions, culture, food and family life that children and young people from these countries may be accustomed to, and how carers and workers can help to welcome them.

The booklets also aim to help carers and workers to start thinking about the effect that their experiences in their home countries and while travelling to the UK may have had on these children and young people. What are their needs likely to be? What issues will be important for them now? How can carers and workers help them cope with this profound change in their lives?

The series consists of six booklets focusing on specific countries that are common points of origin for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people:

• Introductory booklet
• Afghanistan
• Eritrea
• Iraq
• Sudan
• Vietnam

These booklets are designed for foster carers and residential care workers, and may also be of interest to social workers.