First contact
Registration
Identification
Accommodation
First assistance
Age assessment
Family tracing
Relocation
Case assessment
Care planning Life project
Education and training
Work
Health care
Residence permit
Asylum procedure
Best interests determination
Identification of a durable solution
Implementation of a durable solution
Family reunification
Preventing Immigration detention
Turning 18: Leaving care
Aftercare
Ending guardianship
Work
Unaccompanied
children may have an interest in accessing the labour market, finding
employment or part-time jobs they can combine with school education. There may
be expectations of the child to support their family financially or to pay off
debts incurred for the journey, and children simply may have needs and wishes
for which they need money.
Guardians
are responsible for ensuring that children access work and employment in
accordance with their rights and best interests. This requires specific
attention to national laws regulating the work and employment of adolescents, access
to work permits for migrants and asylum seekers, applicable minimum ages and
special protection measures for children at the workplace, in light of the
child’s age and maturity, gender, health, immigration status and other relevant
factors.
When
assessing the best interests of the child with regard to work and employment,
the child’s experiences in countries of origin and transit should be taken into
consideration, as the child may have been involved in child labour, including
the worst forms of child labour, and other forms of exploitation.
See also:
Level 4: Statutory age limits
Reference:
EU training and learning platform for guardians of
unaccompanied children
Chapter 3: Supporting the child from arrival to durable solution
Literature:
International Labour Organization (undated), What is child labour
.
Terre des Hommes (2016), Because we struggle to survive, Child labour among refugees of the Syrian conflict, Child
labour report, Lausanne.