Shabana Mahmood has been told her controversial asylum shake-up will cause significant harm to kids in a scathing intervention by England's Children's Commissioner. Dame Rachel de Souza has warned the Home Secretary that her proposals to push families to leave the UK - even if children are receiving ongoing medical treatment - must be redrawn. A string of measures put forward by the Home Secretary would also see housing and financial support withdrawn from failed asylum seekers who do not leave.