Safeguards to ensure that the educational needs of the children of asylum seekers will be assessed if a decision on their family's asylum application has not been reached by six months were promised last week by the home secretary, following criticism by MPs and children's charities. David Blunkett said children living in special accommodation centres would be assessed and the local educational provider and the child's parents would decide if it was in the child's best interests to move to a state school.
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