Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Immigrants' centre set up to keep children out of detention to shut / The Guardian, September 11 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/11/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices?gusrc=rss&feed=politics
"The Home Office is abandoning a programme to accommodate children and their families outside immigration detention centres, it emerged last night. Millbank, a former old people's home in Ashford, Kent, was converted into a home for asylum-seeker families as part of an "alternative to detention" government pilot last year."