1. Please inform us if, further to a court order and/or Home Office instruction, you have conducted a review of an individual’s social media or other communications or downloaded data for the purposes of an age assessment in the immigration context.
2. (a) Please confirm whether the individual is always present when the review is conducted and
(b) whether they are accompanied by their legal representative or an appropriate adult.
3. Please clarify if you record these requests in such a way that you can give figures for the amount of age assessments conducted by your local authority that involve reviews of social media or other communications or downloading of data. If you do record them in a way that means you can provide figures, please confirm the number of age assessments conducted that involve a review of an individual’s social media in the last 12 months.
4. Please could you provide us with the relevant guidance and/or policy in relation to these requests for age assessments that involve reviews of social media or other communications or downloading data.
5. Please can you provide us with a copy of the Data Protection Impact Assessment if you have conducted one. (DPIA).
6. Please confirm the legal basis you rely upon when seeking to obtain disclosure of social media and messenger (such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messanger, Viber etc) log in details or other communications for age assessment for immigration purposes.
7. Please provide us with any training materials relevant to the above issues.
In response to the above questions, we can confirm that we have not conducted any such reviews and we therefore do not hold any relevant information.