This document provides a brief outline of the main eight recommendations that the UNHCR, UNICEF and IRC advocate as a result of their extensive consultation work with practitioners, governments, the European Union, as well as with unaccompanied and separated children themselves.

The recommendations as to what needs to be done to protect unaccompanied refugee and migrant children arriving in Europe are the following:

  1. Children need to be found and registered through child-friendly procedures.
  2. A well trained guardian needs to take immediate responsibility for the child.
  3. Cultural mediators should be used to bridge cultural gaps and build trust.
  4. Children need to live in safety and receive assistance geared toward their needs.
  5. Refugee, migrant, diaspora and host communities need to be mobilised to help in protecting the children.
  6. Children need to be heard and empowered.
  7. The child’s long-term future needs to be defined as early as possible.
  8. Every decision on behalf of the child needs to serve his or her wellbeing and best interests.

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