Hundreds of UK asylum seeker children wrongly treated as adults, report shows

Data collated from responses to FoI requests from 70 different local authorities about age assessments

Hundreds of asylum seeker children are wrongly being treated as adults by the Home Office, according to data from dozens of local authorities.

Responses from freedom of information requests showed that two thirds of children – 867 out of 1,386 – deemed to be adults by the Home Office were later confirmed to be children.