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£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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