RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

NAME : XXXXXX

TUTOR : XXXXXX

TITLE : RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

COURSE : XXXXXX

INSTITUTION : XXXXXX 2009

Introduction

Unaccompanied minors or separated children are basically the children below the age of 18 years and these children are not within their home country and they are mostly separated from their parents and their earlier officially authorized care giver . These children might become separated away from the families through so many ways . Mass population dislocation , armed conflict , natural disasters plus other crises are the things that might cause the children to become

separated from the parents and the entire family or anybody who is responsible for them Separation occurs sometimes accidentally , for example when the families are fleeing from attack without warning or sometimes they flee intentionally . This occurs when children are neglected or even given over to someone else 's care for the reason that their families are not able to provide them with good care that they deserve . These children might as well be ransom , forced labor , sale or military recruitment . In some instances , these children are separated from their parents to go and stay with relatives for instance older sister , brother or uncles and aunties . Others are separated to go and stay with other adults who provide care for them . Like in the case of Anna , she is on her own because she does not have any relative since her parents died (Wendy 2001

Anna was only sixteen years old when she went to UK unaccompanied from Albania after her parents...