FOI Request - Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children

Request 101003476459

1. Please confirm the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who were accommodated by your local authority whose ages were accepted without further enquiries, excluding National Transfer Scheme (NTS) cases, in the following period: January 2023-present;

2. Please confirm the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that were accommodated by your local authority pending a full age assessment, excluding NTS cases, in the following period: January 2023-present;

3. Please confirm the number of young asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 who were referred to your local authority and were found to be clearly and obviously over the age of 18 and denied support following initial inquiries in the following period: January 2023-present.

4.  Please confirm, in how many of these cases, your local authority decided to accommodate the young people following legal challenges and/or reconsideration requests regarding the initial inquiries.

Response 19-02-2024

1. The low numbers associated with this response may result in the identification of individuals. Therefore numbers of individuals between 1 and 5 have
been redacted and marked with <5 instead. This response is exempt under Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - personal
information

2. Nil

3. Nil

4. Nil