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 [...]
Key findings from: The Children’s Commissioner for England’s follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control. Introduction & Executive Summary Sir Al Aynsley-Green reaffirms that in the UK ‘each year some 2,000 children are detained for administrative purposes for immigration control’. “…my contention remains that detention is harmful to [...]
1 February 2010 As Bishop of Ripon and Leeds I am aware of the impact of removal and detention on those who experience it as well as those left behind, in our schools, communities and congregations. I welcome the initiative of the End Child Detention Now Campaign. The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, representing the [...]
Bolivian asylum seekers were falsely imprisoned and children traumatised after being held at centre. Esther Addley, The Guardian, Friday 29 January 2010. A refugee has won a settlement of £100,000 from the Home Office after it admitted falsely imprisoning her and her children at an immigration detention centre. Carmen Quiroga, originally from Bolivia, spent 42 [...]
Provision at Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre, run by G4S, had deteriorated since the last inspection and arrangements for children and single women were wholly unacceptable, said Dame Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishing the report of an unannounced short follow-up inspection of the centre at Gatwick airport. Since the last inspection, Tinsley House [...]
Responding to an article by Mary Dejevesky in Tuesday’s (15 December) Independent which accused end child detention campaigners and supporters – such as the more than 60 children’s authors and illustrators who signed an open letter to Gordon Brown – of being cynical and financially motivated in using Paddington Bear and the Christmas season to [...]
Jacqueline Wilson, Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen, Benjamin Zephaniah, Julia Donaldson and sixty other leading children’s authors and illustrators have written to Gordon Brown urging him to stop detaining children. In a letter that appears in today’s OBSERVER, the writers and illustrators condemn the detention policy and strongly support children’s commissioner Sir Al Aynsley Green, the [...]
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