http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1697356,00.html
Gaby Hinsliff and Jamie Doward
"Controversial plans to take the children of failed asylum seekers into care unless their parents agree to leave Britain are to be scrapped in a dramatic government U-turn.
It was planned that families whose request to live in this country are rejected would be stripped of all state support and warned that their children could be taken away on the grounds they were destitute. But a senior Home Office source admitted last week it was now 'very unlikely' this clampdown would be extended nationally, following reports that trials had backfired, driving families into hiding and provoking a backlash by social workers reluctant to co-operate."
