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Child's deportation thwarted

01 November 1994

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A Home Office attempt to deport to Bangladesh an 11-year-old boy, to parents who ill-treated him, has been stopped by the High Court pending further investigation. The case has highlighted the conflict between immigration and children's law. By virtue of the latter, it is the child's interests which must have priority in any decisions about his future; but Britain entered a reservation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child saying that immigration control took priority over children's welfare. The Home Office does, however, have a policy that unaccompanied children should not be deported unless adequate arrangements for reception are in place, and it was the flagrant flouting of this policy which was under challenge.

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