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Advancing equity for children and young people seeking asylum and refuge: Project AEGIS
- Grace HastiePolicy Manager for Child Protection and Ethics at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Key points
- Project AEGIS is an NIHR-funded project hosted at UCL about children and young people seeking asylum and refuge.
- The aim is to bring together learning from existing interventions and policy pieces and to talk to the young people themselves.
- The project will design policy interventions and look at what works and what the gaps are.
Grace Hastie, Policy Manager for Child Protection and Ethics at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, provides insights into Project AEGIS, an exciting National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded project hosted at UCL. The focus of the project is supporting children and young people seeking asylum and refuge. Grace highlights the importance of bringing together best practices and existing policy interventions, while also centering the voices and experiences of young people themselves. She discusses the project’s aims to identify what works, address gaps in support, and design new policy interventions to improve outcomes for these vulnerable groups across the country. Grace emphasises the value of collaboration with young people to ensure meaningful and sustainable change. This interview took place at the RCPCH conference 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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So my name is Grace Hastie. I am a policy manager at the college and I'm an investigator on Project AEGIS. This is a really exciting NIHR funded project. It's hosted at UCL and it's all about children and young people seeking asylum and refuge.
We know that there are so many good interventions and policy pieces that aim to support these young people. But we want to bring that learning together, and crucially we want to talk to the young people themselves, and that's exactly what this NIHR grant is all about. So we're going to design policy interventions. We're going to look at what works, what the gaps are, and hopefully roll out some really exciting work for these young people across the country.
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Grace Hastie. “Advancing equity for children and young people seeking asylum and refuge: Project AEGIS.” The Paediatric Video Journal, 27 August 2025. https://paediatricvj.com/videos/advancing-equity-for-children-and-young-people-seeking-asylum-hastie/
This interview is educational content intended for healthcare professionals and is not medical advice. Views expressed are those of the speaker. © The Paediatric Video Journal. All rights reserved.