Assessing and Supporting children and families who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
Practice guidance for local authorities
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Contents
1.
Introduction
1.1 Upcoming legislative changes
1.2 Who has NRPF?
1.3 What are ‘public funds’?
1.4 Good practice points
2.
Pre-assessment screening
2.1 Duty to undertake a child in need assessment
2.2 Checking immigration status
2.3 Exclusions from support
2.4 Emergency support
3.
Assessing need under section 17
3.1 Statutory framework
3.2 Child in need assessment
3.3 Considerations specific to children in NRPF families
3.4 Considerations when parents are in an excluded group
4.
Assessments when the exclusion applies
4.1 Human rights assessment
4.2 Determining whether the family can freely return
4.3 Determining a breach of human rights
4.4 Determining a breach of EU treaty rights
4.5 Determining whether the child would be in need
4.6 Concluding the human rights assessment
5.
Accommodation and subsistence support
5.1 Accommodation
5.2 Financial support (subsistence)
5.3 Additional family members
6.
Pathways off support
7.
Refusing or withdrawing support
7.1 Referring a family onto welfare benefits and housing
7.2 Preventing re-presentations
7.3 Families excluded from support
8.
Adults with care and support needs
8.1 Pregnant women
9.
EEA nationals and family members
9.1 European Economic Area (EEA) countries
9.2 The right to reside
9.3 Family members
9.4 Benefit eligibility
9.5 Irish nationals
9.6 Returning British citizens
9.7 Difficulties asserting the right to reside
10.
Asylum seekers
10.1 Responsibility for providing support
10.2 Section 95 Home Office support
10.3 Section 4 Home Office support
11.
Immigration information
11.1 Making an immigration application
11.2 Refusal of leave due to NHS debt
11.3 Leave to remain with NRPF
11.4 Destitution Domestic Violence Concession
11.5 When is a child British?
12.
Legal aid and accessing legal advice
12.1 Eligibility for legal aid
12.2 Exceptional case funding
12.3 How to find a legal aid adviser
12.4 How to find an immigration or asylum adviser
12.5 Law centres and other free advice providers
13.
Eligibility for other services
13.1 Work related welfare benefits
13.2 Housing association tenancy
13.3 Education and student finance
13.4 NHS treatment
13.5 Child maintenance
13.6 Free school meals
13.7 Government funded child care
13.8 Free and concessionary travel
Endorsements
Acknowledgements
Glossary