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Pregnant women in detention centres kept hidden by the Home Office

18 May 2015

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"The Home Office puts a lot of work into making sure no-one finds out how many pregnant women they hold in their immigration detention centres.

For years they keep no central data on it at all. You can imagine why. Their guidelines state that pregnant women should only be held in exceptional circumstances. But if we can't find out how many pregnant women are in detention, or what happens to them, it's impossible to work out whether they're sticking to it."

See the story: Pregnant women in detention centres kept hidden by the Home Office (Politics.co.uk, link)

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