Writing in The Guardian on Friday 23 July 2010, Phil Shiner and Daniel Carey from Public Interest Lawyers explain why the closure of the family wing at Yarl’s Wood is only a step towards a more humane asylum policy. The deputy prime minister’s announcement to parliament that the family wing at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal [...]
Address to the Fringe Meeting of the General Synod’s Mission and Public Affairs Council on Child Immigration Detention with End Child Detention Now and the Children’s Society, York, 10 July 2010. Esme Madill on behalf of End Child Detention Now. Thank you very much for inviting us here today. End Child Detention Now welcomes the [...]
ECDN is backing this urgent appeal from Refugee and Migrant Justice – Don’t allow this lifeline for hundreds of vulnerable asylum seeking children to be lost. For many refugee families this is a life and death cause. Pledge your support now! If you would be prepared to donate some funds, however small to help save [...]
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Malcolm Stevens, former lead Children’s Services Inspector with the Government’s Social Services Inspectorate, Director of Justice Care and a key advisor to Ian Duncan Smith’s influential Conservative think-tank, the Centre for Social Justice, explains why Yarl’s Wood Immigration centre is no place for children and families. It is heartening news that the [...]
The government confirmed plans in the Queen’s Speech today that it “will limit the number of non-European Union economic migrants entering the United Kingdom and end the detention of children for immigration purposes.” However, David Cameron’s government has yet to commit itself to a time-table which means that the abusive imprisonment of children and their [...]
In Monday’s Guardian, Colin Firth speaks out against the continued detention of children and families and the appalling circumstances that led to the forcible return of Sehar Shebaz to Pakistan. I am distressed to learn that only days after the government agreed to end the iniquity of child detention, a mother and baby were summarily [...]
Clare Sambrook, novelist and journalist, is a pro-bono co-ordinator of End Child Detention Now This article is re-posted from OpenDemocracy 19 May 2010. At 11.36 this morning the mother of an 8-month old baby made a desperate plea for help on her mobile. ‘I told them please don’t send me and my baby in the [...]
Clare Sambrook writes for OpenDemocracy on how a former Labour Home Secretary makes ends meet by offering his security and counter-terrorism expertise to the companies that make millions from the British tax payer out of arresting and locking up children. At the bustling Counter Terror Expo in London’s Olympia this week they are giving top [...]
The Hackney Citizen Tuesday 30 March 2010 As former Hackney residents and [current] coordinators of the End Child Detention Now campaign, we wholeheartedly agree with Diane Abbott that Yarl’s Wood detention centre should be closed before further damage is caused to children and to the UK’s reputation (Hackney MPs clash over child detention at Yarl’s [...]
The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference today pledged its commitment to ending child detention in immigration centres. Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “It is a moral stain on this country’s proud reputation in accepting refugees that we are routinely locking up children for months at a time even though they have committed no [...]
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