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Esmé Madill, Community Care, 18 December 2009: End child detention, Paddington and refugees tell Gordon Brown
Esmé Madill writes about the delivery to Number 10 of handprints made by child refugees at the Shpresa Programme and a petition with over 3500 signatories
Matthew Norman, The Independent, 17 December 2009: Locking up children shames us
Robert Verkaik writes how the lasting damage caused at Yarl’s Wood is apparently not our problem
Hayley O’Keeffe, Luton Today, 17 December 2009: Author’s bid to end detention
Hayley O’Keeffe writes how children at the Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre were visited by children’s author Beverley Naidoo and illustrator Karin Littlewood in a bid to highlight child detention in the UK
Beverley Naidoo, The Guardian, 16 December 2009: Inside Yarl’s Wood immigration centre
Author Beverley Naidoo, who herself first came to the UK seeking refuge, is moved and saddened by the plight of children she meets detained in a UK immigration centre
Jason Groves, The Daily Mail, 14 December 2009: Brown attacked for not scrapping asylum policy that leaves hundreds of children behind bars at Christmas
Jason Groves writes about Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg’s Letter accusing Gordon Brown of ‘moral cowardice’ over detention policy
The Independent, 14 December 2009: Leading article: The cruelty of locking up child asylum-seekers
The leading article in The Independent says that there are alternatives to the policy of detaining migrant families
Robert Verkaik, The Independent, 14 December 2009: Stop abusing child refugees (says illegal immigrant from Darkest Peru)
Robert Verkaik writes how Paddington creator and other authors and actors send letter to Downing Street
Jamie Doward, The Observer, 13 December 2009: Anglican ‘Santa’ barred from giving gifts to children at detainee centre
Jamie Doward writes that when the Anglican expert on St Nicholas tried to spread some cheer at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, security guards called in police
Henry Porter, The Observer, 13 December 2009: Let us hope we have not sunk to the level of mistreating children to deter asylum seekers
Henry Porter writes that for a government that makes much of its record on protecting children from cruelty and abuse, it is extraordinary that the truth about Yarl’s Wood is that it damages terribly the children held there
The Observer, 13 December 2009: End the detention of refugees’ children
More than sixty leading children’s authors and illustrators including Quentin Blake, Michael Bond, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen, Jacqueline Wilson, Beverley Naidoo, sign a letter to Gordon Brown, condemning child detention and supporting Sir Al and the Royal Colleges
Big Issue In The North, 12 December 2009: Medical bodies call for end to child detention
The Big Issue reports how the Royal Colleges of paediatrics and child health, general practitioners and psychiatrists and the Faculty of Public Health call for an end to the detention of children claiming asylum.
Private Eye, 10 December 2009: Serco Clowns
Private Eye reports on a Yarl’s Wood open day
Henry Porter, The Guardian, 24 November 2009: The brutal truth of child detention
2,000 asylum seekers’ kids a year are locked up, and the only beneficiaries seem to be firms running centres like Yarl’s Wood. Henry Porter reports on Clare Sambrook’s post Child detention: who benefits?
Henry Porter, The Guardian, 5 November 2009: Disguising the detention of children
Henry Porter writes how it is difficult to think of two more sinister New Labour figures than Phil Woolas, minister for immigration, and Lady Delyth Morgan, parliamentary under-secretary for children
Clare Sambrook, Community Care, 4 November 2009: Detention of asylum seeking children is abuse
Clare Sambrook writes how the detention of children is state sanctioned neglect
Big Issue In The North, 2 November 2009: Writers call on Prime Minister to halt child detention
Dozens of authors including Andrea Levy, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Gillian Slovo sign a letter to Gordon Brown
The Guardian, 28 October 2009: Stop detention of asylum children
Dozens of authors including Andrea Levy, David Mitchell, Jeanette Winterson and Gillian Slovo sign a letter to Gordon Brown, published in The Guardian
Sathnam Sanghera, The Times, 27 October 2009: No need to defend kids? The hell there isn’t.
Sathnam Sanghera writes: If this column were about puppies being held in indefinite detention with no judicial oversight, my inbox would be full
Simon Parker, The Guardian, 21 October 2009: Stop imprisoning children now
Simon Parker asks would Phil Woolas let his children be locked up? This shameful practice of detaining families seeking asylum must stop
Esmé Madill, The Independent, 20 October 2009: End the inhumanity of child detention
Esmé Madill writes how we detain 2,000 asylum-seeking children each year in awful conditions
Henry Porter, The Observer, 18 October 2009: We are shockingly complacent about locking up 2,000 children a year
Henry Porter writes that the plight of the children of asylum seekers represents a sadly unexceptional failure of public conscience
ECDN Letter, The Guardian, 14 October 2009: ECDN Letter to the Press
Esmé Madill and Simon Parker write in response to a letter from David Wood, Strategic Director of the Criminality and Detention Group of the UK Border Agency
ECDN Letter, The Guardian, 14 October 2009: ECDN Letters to the Press
Clare Sambrook writes in response to misleading claims made by Dave Wood in the Guardian report Immigration Centre’s toll on children’s mental health
Northern Echo 13 October 2009: Child Detention
Letter from campaign coordinators Esmé Madill and Simon Parker
Child Rights Information Network 12 October 2009: UNITED KINGDOM: Pressure mounts on govt to end detention of asylum seeking children
Child Rights Information Network reports launch of ECDN’s parliamentary campaign
The Press (York) 10 October 2009: End Child Detention
Letter from campaign coordinators Esmé Madill and Simon Parker
