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Calls to end detention of children

Updated on 13 October 2009

By Channel 4 News

Detaining children in immigration removal centres is damaging their physical and mental health. Now there are calls for an urgent review of the government's policy of detaining youngsters. Simon Israel reports.

Detention centre (Credit: Reuters)

In the first ever British study of its kind, doctors visited parents and 24 children at the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire and found that the experience of being detained there was causing health problems for most of them.

Of the 11 young children seen by a psychologist, all showed symptoms of depression and anxiety.


David Woods, director of the UK Border Agency, joined Jon Snow.

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