The founder of the Nottingham-based Child Migrants Trust has been appointed CBE in the New Year Honours list.

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Peers also put questions to the government on education and training for people in prisons and young offenders' institutions, the Child Trust Fund and the effect of local government spending cuts on the government's Big Society agenda.

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His guardian went to court to challenge the trust's decision to maintain him in the home, claiming it breached his human rights and child welfare laws.

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If a child left care, the money in their account would be frozen and transferred into their Child Trust Fund when they became 18.

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He said that in "an ideal world" the government would keep the Child Trust Fund but it had to make "difficult choices" over spending cuts.

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Mr Jones, who delivered Prime Minister David Cameron's youngest child, Florence, worked at the trust for 20 years before being suspended in May.

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In response, Treasury Minister Mark Hoban claimed that it was necessary to scrap Child Trust Funds due to the UK's "unsustainable" financial position.

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