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When Shabaaz arrived in the UK from Afghanistan he was 13; a c
stanley spain hild in a strange country. I was alone and I had no one to help me, he says. Despite that, he had high hopes: he dreamed of going to university to study business.But there was a problem: social workers who assessed Shabaaz 鈥?not his real name 鈥?decided he was 16. And that, they said, meant he was too old to go to school and to study for GCSEs. I was asking them to put me in a college or something like that, but they were saying they needed to sort out my age first, he says. They didnt give me any education. Five years on, the local authority has accepted he was much younger than it thought, and has granted him financial support as a care-leaver. He has had some tuiti
stanley cup becher on at college, but at 19 is too old to go to school, making university a distant dream.He takes part in sport 鈥?he enjoys boxing 鈥?but he needs to improve his maths and English, and his options are limited. I talked to my tutor. He said, you have to have G
stanley cup CSEs and you are already 19, so whos going to pay for you Im really stuck now, he says.Charities and lawyers say the situation is not uncommon. Government guidance published last year says young people should be treated as the age they claim they are until any age assessment is completed. Despite that, observers say, too many still miss out on school, college and university.In Sweden, Noor went straight to school; in Britain, Ammar waited six monthsRead moreYoung people in England must legally Fizf Labour acts on risk of dark money from Farage-led lobbyists
British forces in Afghanistan may begin handing over prisoners to the Afghan judicial system in the coming weeks, the defence minister has announced.Philip Hammond said that around 90 prisoners had been held at Camp Bastion for up to a year because Britain was concerned that they might be mistreated in Afghan custody. I decided last November that we should suspend transfers because there was one particular Afghan facility that we were uncomfortable about and we were not able to get from the Afghans a cast-iron guarantee that they would
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stanley quencher es into that facility, he told Channel 4 News on Wednesday. So we stopped transferring them while we sorted out an effective and safe route for accessing the Afghan judicial system, something which we have now secure
stanley mugs d and I expect to be able to go back to the court within the next few days and put our plans to the court for their approval. Hammond s comments came after Mohammad Daud Yaar, the Afghan ambassador to the UK, told BBC Radio 4 s World at One on Wednesday that the principle of national sovereignty meant the detainees should be surrendered to Afghan custody. He said he could promise that they would not be mistreated. Hammond had previously said that many of the detainees posed a danger to British troops.British lawyers acting for eight of the men, some of whom they say have been held for up to 14 months without charge, have launched high court habeas corpus applications in Britain to
