30 yr old school pupil reported to Home Office

There's a bit of a connection here with other feminist issues in terms of who influences policy.

In my twenties, I did a lot of work in war zones and spent some time working with children in the ME in my 30s.

As a rule, children from war zones or areas of conflict or poverty look younger than their equivalent in the West. And by quite some way. A lot of it is to do with malnutrition and disrupted food supplies; they don't eat as much protein as they should, so they tend to be smaller, not as much muscle tone etc.

So when the whole thing about refugees and age came about, and the general line was that children from these cultures look older, I was a bit . That's just not my experience at all. A secondary school child would look more like a primary school child, and that went for both sexes.

My feeling is that what we see here are vested interests of some kind writing policy on non-scientific grounds, based on a load of made-up, uninformed bollocks.

This has been a real issue for both schools and foster families.

Lots in the Mail....

Sadly, this has happened before, and something needs to be done. 

Effectively

Sorry stupid phone

This happened before with the refugees didn't it?

People expressed concerns that many looked older than they claimed to be and were called racists and bigots and awful names.

If this is true it's very worrying that a grown adult was allowed to undress, and play sports and sit in lessons with other children. That is edge ticket an unchecked adult male in a school when even the parebts can't just walk in.