but has the government delivered? 15 year olds marja and najma fled kabul with their parents. but since arriving in the uk almost 18 months ago, they ve been living in home office hotels. and their education, they say, has suffered. i m not going to school. i m not studying. i come from afghanistan to england because there is no study in afghanistan. there s no study. they re both like the same. we don t have any education in school and also in the hotels. all: head. shoulders. all: shoulders. knees. - it was months before these afghan child refugees got school places, and only then when worried teachers from walworth academy in south london forced the issue. marzia and najma were among those delighted to be in class. but a year on, and the girls aren t here. the home office suddenly moved them to another hotel in the north of england without arranging school places for them.
look at the care that s been taken. isn t it glorious? that s a lot of work. principaljess west says she cried when she received handmade christmas cards from some of the afghan girls who were forced to leave the school. we know them, we love them, we look after them, we care for them. what s really difficult is to see them moving from a situation that was precarious, that we did everything we could to try and shore up for them, to another situation that isn t permanent and is just as precarious. najma, studying for her gcses, must repeat a year because local schools have no year 11 vacancies. marzia is having to study online with material provided by walworth academy. i think they broke their promise and the hotel is like a jail. the government is spending £1 million a day on hotels for afghans because it can t source suitable permanent homes for often large family groups. abdullah, not his real name, was a sniper who worked alongside the british military in afghanistan.
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