300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR

Thinktank analysis says proposed earned settlement' changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity

More than 300,000 children already living in the UK could be forced to wait 10 years for settled status under proposed changes to the Home Office's earned settlement" policy, according to an analysis by a centre left thinktank.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that nearly a quarter (23%) of the 1.35 million people already on routes to settlement are children, most of them dependants on their families' work visas.