The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being looked after in England has jumped by more than half in the space of a year. A total of 4,210 children claiming asylum
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Jeremy Corbyn is to announce plans to restore a multimillion-pound fund to help local communities deal with the impact of immigration. But the Labour leader risks sparking a row within
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Campaigners have welcomed the closure of the controversial Dungavel detention centre but worries have already been raised about its planned replacement. The Home Office announced the immigration removal centre near
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A national dispersal scheme is failing to ease the burden on gateway councils looking after lone child asylum seekers entering Britain, it is claimed. Kent County Council (KCC) said just
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A judge has banned journalists from reporting on a deportation case involving a teenager – despite it already receiving widespread press attention. The youngster is currently fighting to remain in
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Ministers and party leaders have been condemned by local politicians for a lack of leadership over the plight of lone child refugees during a visit to the sprawling Jungle migrant
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British and French authorities are to meet in Calais’s Jungle migrant camp to discuss how to care for unaccompanied children. Councillors from the Local Government Association (LGA) will visit the
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A controversial accommodation centre for families facing removal from the UK has been hailed as “excellent” and “groundbreaking” in an inspection report. But watchdogs also described Cedars – which is
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The Home Office has won its appeal against a landmark ruling allowing four Syrian refugees living in the “Jungle” camp in Calais to come to Britain. An immigration judge ruled
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New guidelines will allow immigration detainees to be put in solitary confinement for being “stubborn”, a leading human rights campaign group has said. Liberty condemned the “unprecedented” new Home Office
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