The Netherlands is continuing to break EU conventions by leaving families with children whose requests for asylum have been rejected to fend for themselves on the streets, the Volkskrant reports on Monday.

At the end of last month, the European Committee on Social Rights said the Netherlands must stop evicting families with young children from asylum seekers centres because this conflicted with the European social charter and other human rights legislation.
The charter guarantees the rights of children to protection and a roof over their heads, whatever their legal status. The complaint against the Netherlands was brought by the Defence for Children lobby group in 2008.
The Volkskrant says several hundred families with children are evicted from refugee centres every year.
However, the Netherlands is not planning to amend its rules until it has discussed the issue with the Council of Europe, but that meeting will not take place for several months, the paper says.
Defence for Children lawyer Carla van Os told the paper the Netherlands is dragging its feet unnecessarily. ‘The conclusion is very clear. You cannot dump children on the street. The ruling is binding and the rest of the Council of Europe has nothing to say about the matter,’ Van Os said.
The justice ministry says it cannot change the current situation immediately for ‘procedural reasons’, and lawyers are now working to establish jurisprudence, the paper says.
For example, lawyer Pim Fischer is currently dealing with two families left on Emmen station and told to find their way home.
Junior justice minister Nebahat Albayrak has also ordered local councils to close their emergency accommodation for failed asylum seeker families.