Separated migrant children
The information below will tell you more about where to access health advice and support in the UK for any health needs you might have as an unaccompanied asylum seeking child. You can also take a look at the other sections in this Children In Care and Care Leaver website, to find health information specific to your age.
If you would like more support with your health, contact your Children In Care Specialist Nurse team if you are under 18yrs old; or your social worker.
Useful information
- UASC Health - Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children’s health
- How to register with a GP surgery
- Coram Voice: Your Guide to Important Words and What They Mean
- Help for anyone fleeing the war in Ukraine | Barnardo’s Helplines
- Get help as a refugee or asylum seeker | British Red Cross
- Refugee Education UK | Home | London
Mental health
- Refugee Council
- Emotional support for refugees
- Grief Support guide - to support you when coping with the loss of a loved one
Immunisations
An ‘Immunisation’ is medicine given to you by a nurse or doctor, either by a small injection into your arm, or a nose spray, or sometimes a medicine that you swallow. Children and young people in the UK have immunisations to help keep them healthy and to stop them or others around them getting very poorly.
You might be asked to have some immunisations if you haven’t had any before or if you’re not sure what you had before you arrived in the UK. Your doctor, nurse, carer or social worker will let you know if you need to have an immunisation.
You can find out more about the immunisations you might be asked to have here:
- BCG vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) overview | NHS
- MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine | NHS
- HPV vaccine | NHS
- MenACWY vaccine | NHS
- 3-in-1 teenage booster overview | NHS
- Child flu vaccine | NHS
- Hepatitis B vaccine | NHS
- COVID-19 vaccination | NHS
- NHS vaccinations and when to have them | NHS
Health conditions
Toileting - Take a look at the information from the ERIC website which has been translated into other languages for young people experiencing difficulties going to the toilet:
- Information in other languages - ERIC
- Worms - Worms in humans - NHS
- Vitamin D Deficiency - Vitamin D - NHS