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‘Starve them out’: does every child really matter? A commentary on Section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act, 2004

Steve Cunningham

University of Central Lancashire, scunningham2{at}uclan.ac.uk

Jo Tomlinson

University of Central Lancashire

This article analyses Section 9 of the Immigration and Asylum (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act, which gives the Home Office powers to terminate all welfare support to failed asylum-seeking families deemed to be in a position to leave the United Kingdom. It examines the implications of Section 9 for both practitioners and asylum-seeking families. The article shows that by threatening children with destitution and possible removal from their families, Section 9 flies in the face of the UK’s domestic and international human rights commitments. Moreover, in flatly contradicting accepted childcare principles, Section 9 undermines the Labour government’s stated ambition to ensure that ‘every child matters’.

Key Words: advocacy • children • human rights • refugees

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 25, No. 2, 253-275 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0261018305051330
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