The shake-up of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate includedplans to handle 90 per cent of asylum claims within six months. Butthere was no mention of the much-delayed consultation on services forunaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Lisa Nandy, policy adviser at The Children's Society, said: "It doesraise the question of whether it will be a real consultation or whetherall the details will already have been decided." The consultation is nowunlikely to be published before October at the earliest.
- See Analysis, p12.
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