£1 Million Asylum Project Highlights failures in the Asylum System
The pilot scheme that managed to return one family home to their country of origin for £1 million has been widely reported in the media this week. It is a clear demonstration that the current asylum system is ineffective, and pouring more money into it is wasteful.
The Centre for Social Justices 'Asylum Matters' report called for urgent and radical reform of the UK's asylum system leading to greater voluntary return. If done right, more failed asylum seekers will return voluntarily at much less financial and emotional cost. 'Asylum Matters' highlighted that it is much more efficient to return a failed asylum seeker voluntarily (£1,100) than to enforce a return (£11,000).
In the News!
£1m asylum return scheme helped one family – Guardian 24/6/09
Children's Society says project was a
failed opportunity to deal with 2,000 children locked up in
immigration centres. Despite the ‘good intentions’ of the
scheme, which aimed to help keep families out of asylum centres,
only one family successfully returned
home.
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£1m migrant’s project ‘a scandal’ – BBC 24/6/09
A £1m government scheme to help failed asylum
seekers and their children return home resulted in just one
family leaving Britain, the BBC has learned.
In an attempt to bring down the high numbers
of child detentions, the UK Border Agency set up the one-year
pilot project.
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Government aims high with diversity targets – Guardian 19/6/09
Harriet Harman tells public sector employers to stop 'fishing in same pool' and increase representation of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people on the payroll. By 2011, the government wants 50% of appointments to be women, 14% to be disabled people and 11% to be from an ethnic minority background. Harman claims that diversity is necessary to ensure decisions are made by people with wide experience of life.To read the article in full, click here
