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End Child Detention Now
A citizens' campaign to end the scandal of child detention by the UK immigration authorities
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Child detention in the news- OpenDemocracy: Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger March 10, 2010Clare Sambrook tells the story of child 'M', on the brink of deportation from the UK before a judge ordered his release, pending a judicial review hearing. […]jt.townend
- BBC News: Author Michael Morpurgo on child asylum seekers March 3, 2010Former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo stands outside the Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire to give his views on how child asylum seekers are treated in the UK. […]jt.townend
- Guardian: Legal challenge over Yarl's Wood women March 1, 2010"Lawyers are due to launch a legal challenge today on behalf of four women held at Yarl's Wood detention centre, claiming their incarceration amounts to 'cruel, inhumane and degrading' treatment that breaches their human rights." […]jt.townend
- The Big Issue in the North: The Home Office and Yarl's Wood February 21, 2010The Aynsley-Green report: the Home Office has slammed some of its claims but Big Issue says these claims don't actually exist. […]jt.townend
- Letter to the Telegraph: Grave concern over child detention #ecdn February 19, 2010"We call on the Government to bring an immediate end to the unnecessary and inhumane practice of imprisoning children, babies and young people in immigration removal centres." […]jt.townend
- The Independent: Stop locking up asylum children, ministers told February 18, 2010"Ministers were last night urged to stop locking up children and teenagers in a controversial immigration detention centre after its conditions were condemned by the Children's Commissioner." […]jt.townend
- ITN: Children's Commissioner slams detention centre February 18, 2010"Conditions in an immigration detention centre have been criticised in a report by the Children's Commissioner." […]jt.townend
- BBC News: Yarl's Wood 'must still improve child detention' February 18, 2010"Detention at an immigration removal centre is still "distressing and harmful" for children, the children's commissioner for England has said." […]jt.townend
- Letters: Yarl's Wood: there is no need to detain families with children | UK news | The Guardian February 18, 2010"We are alarmed by the children's commissioner's latest revelations about children's suffering by arrest and incarceration at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre" […]jt.townend
- OpenDemocracy: Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger March 10, 2010
[...] Meanwhile in a number of schools across East London the Shpresa project will be collecting former refugee children’s hand prints to send to the Prime Minister asking him to end child detention. If you work with refugee children or young people who you think might like to be involved in the hand prints campaign please contact us. [...]