An article in The Sun claims that since 2018, two thirds of unaccompanied children claiming asylum in the UK were found to be adults. This is false, and is based on a misinterpretation of Home Office statistics. The real figure is around 20%.
of the person claiming to be a child and the claimant doesn’t have reliable documentary evidence to prove their claim.
In total, 2,722 people claiming to be unaccompanied children were actually deemed to be adults—equivalent to 19% of all 14,208 unaccompanied children. However, The Sun’s figure appears to be based on dividing the number of age dispute cases where the person is found to be over 18 by the number of age dispute cases in total, not the total number of unaccompanied children as claimed.published an articleThis was based on the figures for age dispute cases, but over the time period between January 2021 and March 2022, as opposed to January 2018 and March 2022 as originally claimed in The Sun article.
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