Asylum-seeker Najib Hashimi, 18, was permitted to return to the home of his foster family in Faversham on Thursday pending the outcome of an appeal.

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Jeff, a failed asylum-seeker from Zimbabwe, describes nine years in Britain being bounced from one agency to another, unable to work and afraid to return home.

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The figures also suggest much of the increase was among children who had been placed with new carers, were from refugee or asylum-seeker families, were moving after a family breakdown, or who had had difficulties at a previous school.

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