Based on a comparison between applications made between April and June 2007 and the same period last year, this puts the Border and Immigration Agency on target for reducing asylum claims.
However, the number of young people seeking asylum from the Middle East has increased.
Although asylum applications from children have fallen, the number of under-18s detained under Immigration Act powers has more than doubled since last year. In June 2006, there were 15 under-18s in detention but exactly one year on there are 35.
Save the Children UK director Collette Marshall said "We want urgent changes to the British immigration system to bring an end to the detention of children."
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