Better Days joins 12 civil society organisations in calling for immediate action of relocation to protect hundreds of unaccompanied children (UASC) who currently lack access to basic services including: clothing and shoes, safe accommodation, and healthcare and education.
We call for the foll0wing steps to be taken urgently:
- Immediately register any asylum applications (including family reunification), with
priority given to the rapid transfer of unaccompanied children to safe sheltering, where
with the assistance of their guardians will receive all necessary services. - Strengthening unaccompanied children’s accommodation capacity by increasing the
number of places in shelters and/or the number of shelters and semi-independent living
arrangements in apartments. - The immediate activation of the Relocation mechanism, so that children can be safely
transferred to other EU member states, in the context of fair sharing of responsibilities
and solidarity, which is also the content of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.