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• Social work monopoly on asylum age assessments should end, says sector leader

  05-12-2023 11:13
  
  The requirement that only social workers carry out age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers in disputed cases should end, a sector leader has said.
  Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) president John Pearce said other professionals were capable of carrying out the checks and the current situation was putting pressure on councils’ social work capacity.
  A series of legal judgments, starting with R (B) v London Borough of Merton [2003], have set out the courts&r
  
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