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child detention

June 21, 2018

Trump's executive order a betrayal of families fleeing persecution, says Amnesty

Amnesty International has responded to news that President Trump signed an executive order on 20 June 2018, mandating for children to stay with their parents in detention while their asylum claims are processed.
November 15, 2016

Watchdog report on children in custody

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons’ report, Children in Custody 2015-16: an analysis of 12 to 18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experience in secure training centres and young offender institutions will be published today.
March 13, 2016

Monitoring children's rights in detention

The Howard League for Penal Reform has helped to produce the first European Practical Guide dedicated to the monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty for children.
April 1, 2015

Vote for us! We're slightly better than the others! (Or: An evening at the Quaker hustings)

Lindsay Northover, a Liberal Democrat junior minister, began her remarks at a Quaker-organised hustings event yesterday by commenting on how few people go to hustings these days.
September 30, 2014

New report says costly tagging programme sets children up to fail

A new report claims children in trouble with the law are being put on electronic tags, given curfews, then sent back to prison because of failures in the system meant to support them.
December 20, 2012

Bahrain condemned for detaining 16-year-old boy in adult jail

Amnesty International has condemned the Bahraini authorities’ detention of a 16-year-old boy in an adult prison in violation of international human rights standards.
May 16, 2012

Quakers call for end of indefinite immigration detention

The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network has issued a atatement calling for the ending of indefinite immigration detention.
February 24, 2012

Extreme destitution now routine among refugee children in UK

A new report by the Children’s Society reveals alarming levels of destitution among refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children and young people.
December 19, 2011

Call for ban on overnight police custody of children

The Howard League for Penal Reform has called for a ban on overnight police detention of under 14s, calling it a "dangerous and frightening practice that does more harm than good".
October 17, 2011

Children's Society condemns continuing child border detention

In May 2010 the Government announced that it would end the immigration detention of children, but it is failing to do so says the Children's Society.