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Campaigners are urging teachers and students to sign a declaration protesting about the removal of children and young people whose asylum applications have failed.

Campaigns were recently mounted against the removal of school children in Portsmouth, Canterbury and Reading.

Drawn up by teachers, students and trade unionists, the declaration expresses concern about the detrimental effects of removal on a child's health and well-being.

It also commits those working in education to use "whatever legal means are available to persuade the Home Office to revoke any order of deportation affecting any child or young person in our school/college".

• <25CF> Sign the declaration at www.schoolsagainstdeportations.org/