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THE Home Office is being taken to court over its “unlawful” family reunification policy which campaigners claim is putting the lives of child refugees “at risk.”
Charity Safe Passage filed for a judicial review last year to challenge the policy which changed how family reunification requests are processed.
The charity claims the policy change leads to “wrong decisions” as it doesn’t go far enough to determine whether family members are related, and tells decision-makers to refuse a request if they fail to consider it in time.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
