In the year April 2008 to March 2009, 1,116 children entered detention and slightly more departed it-clearly some cases would have overlapped from previous year. Some 539 of those children, slightly fewer than half, were removed, and 629 were released.
BBC News Thursday, 11 February 2010
A woman and her 10-year-old daughter
have won the latest round in their legal fight to avoid deportation.
Florence Mhango and daughter Precious, originally from Malawi, succeeded
in an application to have a full judicial review into their asylum case.
Supporters say they could be separated if returned to Africa, with
Precious at risk of possible genital mutilation.
The pair have spent
most of their seven years in the UK living in the Cranhill area of Glasgow.
Minister appeal
They narrowly avoided deportation last November
after being removed from a flight at Heathrow pending further legal action.
They were returned to Yarls Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire, where
they had been moved from Dungavel detention centre in Lanarkshire, before being
released to return north.
Glasgow SNP MSP Anne McLaughlin, who has
campaigned for the family's release, said: "I am relieved and delighted with the
outcome of this renewal hearing. They will now proceed to a full hearing and I
am confident they can win that.
"However I would now appeal in the
strongest terms to the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson and ask him not to put them
through that."
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