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Children made 'sick with fear' in UK immigration detention centres - The Guardian 13th October 2009
"Weight loss, difficulty sleeping, bed-wetting and sickness among symptoms found at Yarl's Wood"
Liverpool’s asylum-seekers unit told to improve Reliance House accommodation - Liverpool Echo 16th September 2009
A LIVERPOOL screening unit for asylum-seekers is being ordered to make a number of “urgent” improve-ments to its facilities.
It follows an unannounced inspection of Reliance House, run by the UK Border Agency, in Water Street.
Home for 18 asylum seekers in Liverpool's Newsham Park gets go-ahead - Liverpool Echo 2nd September 2009
CONTROVERSIAL plans to open an asylum-seekers’ home in a Liverpool community were given the go-ahead despite objections from the police and the court service.
Merseyside police took the rare step of objecting to a planning application after residents around Newsham Park, Fairfield, raised concerns about the effect of the scheme on their area.
Ministers under fire for locking up immigrant children - The Observer 30th August 2009
Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470 minors were being detained with their families.
The figures, made public following pressure from children's rights groups and MPs, showed most were under five.
Children held in Yarl's Wood detention centre speak out - The Observer 30th August 2009
Ibrahim Ssentongo, four, is watching cartoons in the living room of his house in East Ham, London. It has been seven months since he was locked up in Yarl's Wood detention centre, in Bedfordshire. But despite the best attempt of his parents to ease the trauma of those 51 days from his mind, it haunts him still.
Immigration and detention - codes of practice - The Observer 30th August 2009
In 2007, Liam Byrne, the then immigration minister, said: "I have to sign the authorisation for every child held in detention for longer than 28 days. I have never signed that authorisation without thinking of my three children at home."
'They stoned my house every night' - BBC Health News 21st August 2009
Seven years after seeking asylum in the UK, Dr Sarkhell Radha has finally started working as an orthopaedic specialist trainee.
But Dr Radha, an Iraqi Kurd, said he has had to overcome discrimination, as well as physical and verbal abuse, along the way.
Free health care for failed asylum seekers - Daily Telegraph 21st July 2009
Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers will be able to obtain free health care following a Government rethink, it has been announced.
Failed asylum seekers to get free care from cash strapped NHS to protect their human rights - Daily Mail 21st July 2009
NHS treatment will be available for tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers to ensure their human rights are honoured, it was announced yesterday.
At present, they are denied free treatment if an asylum bid has been turned down but they have not left the country.
Failed asylum seekers health help - BBC Health News 15th July 2009
Failed asylum seekers in Wales who have been told they cannot stay in Britain can now have access to free NHS care.\n\nA change in regulations was confirmed by the assembly government in June, and came in to force on Wednesday.
Liverpool asylum centre plan blocked - Liverpool Daily Post 8th July 2009
PLANS to create a home for up to 20 asylum-seekers in a residential street was blocked by city councillors.
The application to convert the former property for 12 mentally ill people in Newsham Drive, Fairfield, attracted objections from the public and councillors.
20-bed asylum house rejected by Liverpool planning bosses - Liverpool Echo 8th July 2009
A HOME for up to 20 asylum seekers in a residential street has been blocked by city planning bosses.
The application to convert the former home for 12 mentally ill people in Newsham Drive, Tuebrook, attracted objections from the public and councillors.
Failed asylum seekers not entitled to free NHS treatment - The Guardian 31st March 2009
Refugee and health charities expressed dismay after the appeal court ruled yesterday that failed asylum seekers with chronic illnesses were not entitled to free health care on the NHS.
But the three appeal judges also ruled that hospitals have the discretion to provide free treatment to such individuals if they cannot afford to pay for it.
Failed asylum seekers 'not entitled to free NHS care' - The Telegraph 30th March 2009
Failed asylum seekers are not automatically entitled to free treatment on the NHS, one of Britain's most senior judges has ruled.
Failed asylum seekers are not entitled to free NHS treatment, rules judge - Daily Mail 31st March 2009
A judge has ruled that failed asylum seekers should be refused free NHS treatment, declaring they 'ought not to be here'.
Delivering a judgment that will save the taxpayer millions of pounds, Lord Justice Ward added: 'They should never have come here in the first place.'
The test case was brought by a 35-year-old Palestinian, known as YA, who has links to the extremist Hamas party.
Failed asylum seekers denied NHS - BBC Health News 30th March 2009
Failed asylum seekers cannot receive free treatment on the NHS, three judges have ruled at the Court of Appeal.
But hospitals can decide themselves whether to treat such individuals if they have no money, the judges said.
UK accused over asylum seekers left to live on $1 a day - The Guardian 16th March 2009
Hundreds of thousands of failed asylum seekers are living in the UK in extreme poverty, because they fear torture or death if they return to their home countries, according to a report released today.
The report warns many failed asylum seekers are living in a "twilight zone", with no housing or financial support, and no right to work. Many failed asylum seekers are living on less than "a dollar a day", the global yardstick for extreme poverty, it claims. Recent research by the London School of Economics estimated there are 500,000 failed asylum seekers in the UK.
Asylum seeker children 'removed in caged vans' - The Telegraph 10th March 2009
The Children's Commissioner for England has expressed concern over claims that children of asylum seekers, some as young as eight years old, were being transported in "caged" vans.
Court to decide whether Afghan seeking asylum in UK is a boy aged 15 - or a man - The Guardian 10th March 2009
If Majid does not grow any taller, he will be short for a man. He is stockily built, and his handshake is as soft as a child's. The conversation is all about him, but when other people start to talk his eyes wander and he cranes his head around to look through the window. He fidgets with his fingers, and his feet are doing an adolescent shuffle to the music in his head.
Row on asylum children detention - BBC Health News 8th March 2009
The UK government's treatment of the children of asylum seekers in detention is 'abusive' and 'dehumanising', it has been claimed.
The chief executive of the Welsh Refugee Council said the government was in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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