Family Reunification of Unaccompanied Foreign Children (UFC)

1. Family Reunification of Unaccompanied Foreign Children (UFC) Existing Practice, Good Practice Representation of Group n. 3:Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands,Statutory Services and NGOs Save The Children, IOM, La Voix De L’Enfant, Trafficked Persons

2. Existing Practice: Tracing • Outlined “Ideal” and “Reality” for Tracing • Identified Good Practice: Cooperation between NGOs, Social Services and Justice within our countries and countries of origin“Easy Countries” – cooperation happens“Hard Countries” – significant challenge

3. Existing Practice: Voice of Child Consultation with child and/or impartial representative Reality: • not whether child wants to stay or go but has to prove risk in country of origin • too young and/or too scared for this to work • significant variations depending on reason for being in our country such as: Trafficking, Political or Economic reasons

4. General Good Practice • Harmonisation of Criteria for • Tracing of families in country of origin • Reunification prerequisites • Monitoring Requirements • European Network • NGOs and statutory for efficiencies • Common Service Level Agreements including funding • Birth Registration independent of Citizenship