Child's deportation thwarted (1)
01 January 1991
Child's deportation thwarted
artdoc March=1995
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.
Statewatch, Vol 4 no 6, November-December 1994