No Place for a Child: Children in UK immigration detention — Impacts, alternatives and safeguards
This report looks at the experience of asylum-seeking children who are detained for immigration purposes.
- Published
- February 2005
- Price
- £8.95
- ISBN
- 9781841871035
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Increasing numbers of asylum-seeking children are being detained by the UK government for immigration purposes. Little is known about the reasons for their detention, the length of time they are detained, or the impact it has on their wellbeing.
There is growing concern that this use of detention contravenes a range of international human rights standards relating to the treatment of children, and impacts negatively on already vulnerable children.
No Place for a Child sets out to analyse current UK detention policy and practice, its impact on children, and to offer viable alternatives to the immigration detention of children. It also identifies safeguards for children already in detention that would reduce the length of their detention.
By making specific recommendations, this report not only contributes to the policy debate on immigration detention, but also seeks to make the immigration detention of children a thing of the past in the UK.
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