RESEARCH- Da'aro Youth Project shows rising deaths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people

Da'aro Youth Project is today publishing a new report titled:

'Deaths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the care of, or supported by, local authorities’. 

This report shows, for the first time, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people have died in recent years, and provides information on cause of death and also demographic information.

The research shows that over a ten-year period between 2015 and 2024:

● At least 54 unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people died whilst in touch with a local authority.

● Of this number, the majority died by suicide (at least 31 young people).

● Of those known to have died by suicide, more than two-thirds were teenagers and more than half were Eritrean nationals.

Read the research here