Section Nine of the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act makes it legal tostop the benefits of failed asylum seekers who refuse to leave the UK,potentially leaving them destitute. It has led to families going intohiding to stop their children being taken into care.
Last week Baroness Ashton, a junior minister at the Department forConstitutional Affairs, accepted an amendment to the Immigration, Asylumand Nationality Bill, which means that the Government can now repealSection Nine without further legislation.
Lisa Nandy, policy advisor at The Children's Society, said this made itmuch easier for the Government to backtrack on its controversialpolicy.
"Evidence shows the policy pilot is not working."
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