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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: asylum claims and initial decisions datasets

Asylum claims from unaccompanied children

2026 Q2 Provisional

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Asylum claims from unaccompanied children were 955 people in 2026 Q2, down 17.7% (205) from 1,160 in 2025 Q2.

▼ 17.7% · −205 against 2025 Q2 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2026 Q2
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Asy_D01
  5. row “UASC=UASC”
  6. column “Claims”
  7. cell value sum of 53 rows

The series is falling. Rule: down 17.7% from 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2.

2006 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Asylum claims from unaccompanied children: 2006 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01k2k20102015202020252006 Q1: 806 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q2: 760 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q3: 855 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q4: 912 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q1: 812 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q2: 694 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q3: 819 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q4: 1,164 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q1: 1,082 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q2: 814 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q3: 1,000 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q4: 1,080 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q1: 950 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q2: 671 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q3: 658 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q4: 571 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q1: 395 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 352 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 386 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 380 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 343 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 339 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 271 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 295 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 263 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 244 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 310 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 308 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 282 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 288 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 327 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 368 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 397 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 396 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 551 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 601 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 525 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 575 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 1,023 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 1,130 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 693 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 699 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 722 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 1,176 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 546 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 602 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 588 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 663 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 667 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 604 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 851 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 941 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 1,008 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 780 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 921 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 1,066 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 762 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 428 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 880 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 635 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 541 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 813 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 1,443 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 1,583 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 891 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 1,204 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 2,134 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 2,066 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 785 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 1,215 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 1,996 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 925 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 1,015 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 1,155 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 1,332 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 1,082 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 725 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 1,160 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 1,564 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 1,024 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 732 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 955 people · published 27 August 2026
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What this measures

The number of asylum claims made in each quarter by unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC): people under 18 who claim asylum in the UK without a parent or guardian.

What this doesn’t measure

Children who claim as dependants of an adult, age-disputed claimants later found to be adults, or children who arrive without claiming asylum.

Important caveat

These breakdowns are built by summing the Home Office detailed asylum dataset (people, main applicants and dependants) for each quarter. Category labels are kept exactly as published, so the same group can appear under two spellings in older data. Data for 2026 Q1 onwards is provisional and will be revised in a future publication.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Home Office
Publication
Immigration system statistics: asylum claims and initial decisions datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
asylum-claims-datasets-jun-2026.xlsx
File SHA-256
10788dae8042fdb4f49ce4fc1447335a5cc868df48349969d66185bfda12e02f
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Data_Asy_D01
Table
Asy_D01
Row
UASC=UASC
Column
Claims
Cell value
sum of 53 rows
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/asylum_claims_uasc · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–1,1552024 Q29552026 Q2↓ 17.3%
Conservative 2019–20249212019 Q31,1552024 Q2↑ 25.4%
Conservative 2017–20195462017 Q19212019 Q3↑ 68.7%
Conservative 2015–20175252015 Q15462017 Q1↑ 4.0%
Coalition 2010–20153952010 Q15252015 Q1↑ 32.9%

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Release
Year ending June 2026 · publication page
Last updated
27 August 2026
Next scheduled release
26 November 2026 (official date)