Children seeking refuge in Britain are being deprived vital help of lawyers because of cuts to legal aid funding A child asylum seeker at the gates of the Red Cross refugee centre at Sangatte near Calais. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA Refugee and Migrant Justice, formerly the Refugee Legal Centre, blames the harshness of the legal aid funding regime for forcing it to close its doors on 10,000 asylum seekers. That number includes about 900 children who arrive by themselves in the UK from countries...
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