‘Significant harm’: children’s watchdog decries Home Office plan to push out refused asylum seekers

Rachel de Souza writes to home secretary over proposals that include removing sick childrenUK politics – live updatesShabana Mahmood has been told that her crackdown on refused asylum seekers, including the forcible removal of children from the UK, will cause “significant harm”, in an intervention by an independent watchdog.Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, said the home secretary’s plan under consultation to push families to leave the UK – including those with children receiving medical treatment – should not be implemented as proposed. Continue reading...