We are pleased to pass on this message from Paddington Bear to all our supporters, which the writer Michael Bond OBE (and No10 petition signer) has been kind enough to forward: “Whenever I hear about children from foreign countries being put into detention centres, I think how lucky I am to be living at number [...]
Re-posted from Ekklesia 4 December 2009 The police were called on the patron saint of children and the imprisoned today, as he tried to deliver Christmas gifts to children at a detention centre. The inspiration for the modern day Father Christmas, St Nicholas of Myra, was turned away at the gate of the Yarl’s Wood [...]
By Simon Parker In a report released today the Home Affairs Select Committee expressed a number of concerns about the detention of children in the UK immigration system but failed to acknowledge that the detention of children for any length of time is abusive and harmful to their well being. In the first part of [...]
By JO STEELE – Monday, November 16, 2009 www.metro.co.uk A boy of six who was born in Britain faces being sent to a war-ravaged part of Africa because his parents split up. Adrian Atkinson’s mother, Anna, has been ordered to go to the Congo Republic within the next nine days. The decision, based on Ms [...]
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