Recommendation 21

Eligibility for home fee status should be reviewed in light of the changes to routes to settlement, to ensure that children and young people who have lived in the UK for a significant period of time are not prevented from going to university due to lack of home fee status. Home fee status could, for example, be granted on the basis of a minimum period of UK residence in childhood, such as five years. As education is a devolved matter, the Home Office and Department for Education should engage with the devolved administrations on the impact of the changes, and implications for access to home fee status in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Recommendation, Paragraph 74) Child poverty