The headteacher of four young Bradford schoolchildren being removed from the UK with their illegal immigrant parents says they are innocent victims.

Four Romanian nationals living in Slough have been jailed today in a landmark child trafficking case involving a 13 year-old girl.

The 2000 children living in immigration detention centres should receive the same primary and specialist healthcare as other children but evidence suggests they do not, says an editorial in the Lancet.

A teenager who has been stranded in South Korea could be landing back on British soil this weekend, her adoptive family hopes.

The family that was due to be deported to Cameroon is still in detention in the UK after their lawyers lodged a judicial review application with the UK Border Agency (UKBA).

A Muslim mother who fears having her child taken from her under Sharia if sent back to Lebanon won the right to stay in the UK from the House of Lords yesterday.

A £150,000 pilot project aimed at ending the detention of children at Dungavel is to be launched. Failed asylum seekers awaiting deportation will be housed in former council flats in Glasgow before they return to their own countries.