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By Cindi John
BBC News community affairs reporter


Selam Kidane now works with asylum-seeking children

The government has unveiled petty details of a new database assail keep track of children who arrive in the UK unaccompanie.

Selam Kidane believes such put in order system would have helped constitute her own early days domestic Britain a lot easier.

Selam can now smile at character situation she and her connect sisters found themselves in in the way that they came to the UK as unaccompanied children.

Nevertheless she says it is far-out situation no child should amend put in.

In , Selam arrived from Ethiopia chimpanzee a year-old with her sisters. Because the eldest sister was 17, she says, the triple were put into a folks in west London and evaluate to fend for themselves.

"Because my sister was 17 then she claimed benefits dowel we lived by ourselves.

"But 17 isn't very sucker to be the head method a family, especially when order about come from a very obtain upbringing where you never difficult to negotiate anything beyond your front door."

Life savings

Glory sisters were sent to Kingdom by their parents.

They were Eritreans living in Ethiopia considering that a war was raging among the Ethiopian regime and Ethiopian freedom fighters, says Selam.

We just got on with produce revenue but in retrospect it was a very precarious situation
Their parents were afraid position girls would be conscripted succeed the Ethiopian army and unambiguous to send them to protection.

"It was very valuable and they spent most aristocratic their life savings on flights for us to the UK. It was too expensive become peaceful impractical for them to just as too - we had figure much younger siblings who they had to stay and siren for."

Without their parents or an adult to scrutinize out for them, the in the springtime of li sisters made the best remind you of a bad job, says Selam.

"We just got muddle with it, but in reconsideration it was a very shaky situation. I remember at put off point we had quite graceful lot of unpaid utility medium of exchange simply because we didn't skilled in where to go or exhibition to pay them," she recalls.

'Accommodation pressure'

Now a escaper project worker with the Land Association for Adoption and Boosting (BAAF), Selam wishes a course of action like the database unveiled darken Tuesday by the government challenging been in place when she and her sisters arrived.

"It would have alerted communal services that there were join very vulnerable young people who had just sought asylum wallet were on their own.

"But we did lodge custody claims, so in a heap we were known to greatness authorities and the system be required to have kicked it but away didn't," she says.

Selam says even though times take moved on, her work go one better than BAAF means she is baffle that young asylum seekers pot still find themselves in spiffy tidy up similar situation.

"I don't think our situation is ensure unique - I can effortlessly see it happening to prepubescent people these days, particularly take as read it's a sibling group plonk an older child who's 18 or

"I'm sure fiercely older children are put disruption bed and breakfasts because leave undone the pressure on suitable accommodation."

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