Dear J Cassidy,

Freedom of Information Request - 11642 - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)

Thank you for your e mail of 12 April 2009 where you have requested information on the Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Reform Programme and any information on workshops that we had originally intended to run in May 2009. Your request falls to be considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The target date for UKBA to respond to your request was 13 May 2009.

At the present time we have not decided whether or when or even if we are going to hold the aforementioned workshops but in any case they were not held in early May. Therefore there are no invitations, and no paperwork relating to the workshops.

However it is entirely possible that sometime in the next few months we may wish to resurrect the workshops and you are welcome to seek the information again. You may wish to make a further request for information in August.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the UK Border Agency sending a substantive reply to your original request and should be addressed to:

Head of Information Access Policy Team

(Freedom of Information)

11^th floor - short corridor

Lunar House

40 Wellesley Road

Croydon

CR9 2BY

During the independent review the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

I am sorry I could not be of further help at the moment.

Yours sincerely

Jerry Harland

UASC Reform Programme