Fri 26th

In the News!

Published by: CSJ on Friday 26th June 2009 10:06am

£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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Fri 26th

In the News!

Published by: CSJ on Friday 26th June 2009 10:06am

£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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