2 3 4 Remove mandatory reporting requirements that deter people from accessing healthcare and/or civil registration • Remove any requirements for public officials to report people with irregular residence status to immigration authorities and monitor practice to ensure this does not happen • Introduce legal safeguards (‘firewalls’) to prohibit public officials from reporting people to immigration authorities when accessing healthcare or civil registration services • Issue targeted, accessible, public information to inform people about their rights to access healthcare and civil registration services Improve procedures to determine the child’s nationality and identify where they would otherwise be stateless • Ensure full legal safeguards are in place so that any child born on the territory who would otherwise be stateless can acquire a nationality • Build the capacity of civil registry officials through training and guidance to identify (the risk of) statelessness during birth registration • Ensure mechanisms are in place for civil registry officials to refer identified cases for nationality determination to a clear procedure under a designated competent authority with the necessary expertise and safeguards • Ensure that children are treated as nationals for the purposes of accessing their fundamental rights while their nationality is determined as soon as possible and in line with their best interests • Improve research, standards, guidance, and information about law and policy frameworks for the determination of the child’s nationality Improve local, national and regional data on birth registration • Improve cooperation between local, national, regional and international institutions to collect and publish accurate birth registration data • Increase efforts to gather and publish data on birth registration rates among populations disproportionately facing barriers to registration, including undocumented migrants, refugees, members of minority groups, people in residential care, immigration detention or prisons, asylum reception centres, informal settlements, and homeless people.