The Da’aro Youth Project has published a report on the deaths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the care of or supported by local authorities in the UK. This report shows, for the first time, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people have died in recent years, and provides information on cause of death and also demographic information. Key findings show:

• Over a 10 year period, between 2015 and 2024, at least 52 unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people died whilst being cared for, or supported by, a local authority or health and social care trust in the United Kingdom.
• Of the total number of 54 deaths, the majority – at least 31 young people – died by suicide.
• Teenagers make up more than two-thirds of those known to have died by suicide.

Eritrean nationals were disproportionately represented, making up more than one half of all deaths by suicide.