News Summary

• Home Office has awarded a contract to a tech firm to develop AI facial recognition to determine the age of migrants arriving at the English Channel.
• The new technology is intended to make it easier to find adults trying to 'game the system' by getting into in the care system as opposed to the asylum system.
• It has been met with opposition from human rights campaigners, who have called on the Home Office 'to scrap' the 'deeply flawed' scheme.
• In the year ending June 2025, 111,084 claimed asylum in the UK - an increase of over 14 per cent when compared to the year prior.