The Centre for Social Justice report calls for laws that withdraw all support from failed asylum seekers to be scrapped. It includes evidence that children are being left destitute by the laws.
One 30-year-old woman, five months pregnant with two children aged nine and three, was left destitute for four weeks after support from the National Asylum Support Service stopped. The family had no money for food.
"It is inhumane to put families in a situation where you have children who are literally starving," said Lisa Nandy, policy adviser at The Children's Society. "We have documented cases of mothers prostituting themselves to survive and children growing up without food, a safe place to live or access to much needed healthcare. The use of destitution to force children out of the country is both inhumane and ineffective, and must stop."
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