END CHILD DETENTION NOW exposes UKBA’s misleading claims to parliament on damning medical report.
This piece was written by Clare Sambrook and first appeared at OpenDemocracy
Back in October, a study by NHS paediatricians and psychologists, Lorek et al, found that babies and children were being harmed at Yarl’s Wood detention centre.
The doctors recorded children’s ‘increased [...]
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 its [...]
By Clare Sambrook, a co-ordinator of citizens’ campaign End Child Detention Now
Community Care, November 4 2009.
One key feature of government guidance issued this week on how UK Border Agency staff should care for the children they lock up, is ’safer recruitment’. Officers raiding family homes and searching children in their beds will be thoroughly [...]
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