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No Place for a Child: Children in Immigration Detention in the UK - Impacts, Alternatives and Safeguard

  • Heaven Crawley
  • , Trine Lester

    Research output: Book/ReportOther report

    Abstract

    This report examines the experiences of children who are detained for the purpose of immigration control. It explores the impacts of detention on children, the alternatives to detention and the safeguards that are necessary to prevent detention becoming prolonged and to ensure that children’s rights are upheld and that they are treated lawfully. The research was highly influential leading to a major national campaign to end the detention of children in the UK.
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherSave the Children
    Commissioning bodySave the Children
    Number of pages95
    ISBN (Print)1 84187 1036
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
      SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

    Keywords

    • children and young people
    • detention
    • immigration
    • UK
    • Public Policy

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