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"Like all asylum seekers, unaccompanied children have to apply to be allowed to stay in the country. But despite looking after youngsters and getting to know them, social workers are not allowed to represent them during their cases. Instead, they are helped by the refugee council.
Members of Cambridgeshire County Council's children and young people's services scrutiny committee were horrified. Coun Gaynor Griffiths said: "They could be here from the age of 12, they've gone through the education process, they could even have got to university or be playing cricket for England and we send them home and we can't support their case to stay. That is shocking." [Trafficking; Immigration - Economic]
