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DEPORTATION FEAR: Council backs stay plea
HARTLEPOOL Borough Council has vowed to do all it can to raise the profile of the Joseph family's fight.
Chief executive Paul Walker met Jeevitha and Neeraja at their school on Monday and was quick to back their pleas to stay after hearing of the horrors they had faced in their homeland.
Mr Walker said: "I am representing the Mayor Stuart Drummond because he is out of the country at the moment.
But he has said he will do all he can to support keeping the family in safety in this country.
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"Stuart will be looking to support the publicity campaign and to support the campaign in general by writing letters, signing petitions, doing what he can to try and get the position known nationally.
"If you look at it from a council point of view, if this was a question of safeguarding children at risk in Hartlepool we would move very quickly to do it.
"It should be exactly the same position for these children. We should apply the national legislation on safeguarding in exactly the same way if at all possible.
"I have had lots of councillors telling me the council needs to do whatever it can to support them, and they are willing to work in whatever way they can to help that."
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