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Everyone should be able to call their home, their home.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK have insecure or unclear immigration status – we want to help everyone use the rights they’re entitled to, and be secure in the places they’ve made their home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Child Citizenship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Children can sometimes acquire citizenship through quick, straightforward routes. We partner with fourteen law firms as part of the Kids in Need of Defense UK Network, to advise and represent parents of children without citizenship. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Advice for professionals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Children in care can have underlying immigration problems. We provide specialist training to support social workers and other professionals to identify children who need specialist immigration advice, early, and we work with social services departments to design processes which make sure every child in care gets appropriate support, as soon as they come into contact with social services. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Legal aid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some immigration work is in-scope for legal aid. As an IAA-registered Law Centre with staff accredited to IAAS level 2, we can take on the full range of immigration work covered under legal aid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think you might need help, you can make an enquiry and we’ll be able to assess your problem and eligibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Self-help resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We publish a variety of information for older children, parents and guardians, and people who work with children. We’re working towards a future where everyone is able to understand their child’s status. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Resources for specialists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As well as our advice service, we have a library of information for social workers, social work managers, and others working in the formal childrens’ services sector. Learn about how immigration and nationality issues might present, and what to do to find help promptly. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Legal briefings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We’re proud of our staff’s wealth of knowledge and experience, and we want to develop a legal sector which has deeper and wider understanding of childrens’ immigration and nationality. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Path to Papers is a project run by Central England Law Centre, an award-winning charity and law practice. We work to help people protect and enforce their rights across all areas of social welfare – whether that’s citizenship, nationality and immigration; or other rights. You can find out more about CELC at centralengandlc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We grew Path to Papers out of the Kids in Need of Defense UK project, which began in 2017. Changes to legal aid in the early 2010s meant that more and more children of migrants were growing up with insecure status, and their parents remained in the dark about the possibility of becoming citizens. For parents who were aware, the application was still not straightforward, and private immigration advice was often unaffordable for normal families. Children who grew up in the UK increasingly found themselves victims of the so-called ‘hostile environment’ when they turned 18, and fell off a cliff-edge where they would have to spend multiple years on temporary visas as part of a route to citizenship – rather than being able to make a straightforward application to align their legal status, with the reality of their life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a decade, we’ve partnered with four other legal advice agencies and more than thirty large law firms – first as Kids in Need of Defense UK and now part of the Network. More than 1500 children have become citizens thanks to this project’s efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The problems of not having the right documentation and status, and getting <\/em>that documentation, aren’t confined to child citizenship. We see all sorts of linked issues – whether that’s helping people who have just become citizens to use their rights, helping other family members, or working on public policy to try to stop these problems happening at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of our plans for growing our Child Citizenship project, we’re also expanding the sorts of help we can offer, using the strengths of our Law Centre to do more, for more people. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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