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UK: BBC News - Childrens Commissioner: Detention of children 'must stop'

01 April 2009

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Detention of children 'must stop' (BBC News. link): "Children who have been refused asylum should no longer be detained while awaiting deportation, the children's commissioner for England has said. Sir Al Aynsley-Green warned in a report that children found Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, in Bedfordshire, "like being in prison". "

and the full report: The Arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control: A report following the Children’s Commissioner for England’s visit to Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (pdf)

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