Section nine of the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act made it legal tostop the benefits of failed asylum seekers who refused to leave the UK,leaving some families destitute and causing others to go into hiding tostop their children being taken into care.
Last week, immigration minister Liam Byrne informed Parliament's JointCommittee on Human Rights that the law would not be changed.
Lisa Nandy, chair of the Refugee Children's Consortium at The Children'sSociety, said it was depressing news. "It's a policy that failed ontheir own standards and caused so much damage, chaos and confusion tothe people affected and the staff affected by them."
She now expects the issue to be picked up by the consortium when itlooks at the UK Boarders Bill.
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