Glasgow teenagers have won a partial victory in their long-running campaign to stop children of asylum seekers being locked up.

Glasgow teenagers have won a partial victory in their long-running campaign to stop children of asylum seekers being locked up.

Scottish ministers are to urge the Home Office to consider safe-guarding kids who have become well integrated into their local schools and communities.

The move came after the teenagers, known as the Glasgow Girls', renewed their campaign against the Home Office's treatment of young refugees.

Two years on and they say little has changed with thousands still living in fear.

Amal Azzudin, Emma Clifford, Agnesa Murselaj, Jennifer McCarron, Ewelina Siwak, Toni Lee Henderson and Roza Salih all became friends while studying at Drumchapel High.

Amal, 17, from Somalia, says the Home Office must abandon its "cruel and inhumane treatment" of asylum children.

She said: "We are pleading to members of the public, to the First Minister, to the Prime Minister. Please help us do something about this."

The girls' renewed pleas appear to have been taken on board by Education Minister Hugh Henry, who said he would press for greater protection for the children of asylum seekers as part of an imminent review.