State Sponsored Cruelty. Children in immigration detention
- Document number
- 2503
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- State Sponsored Cruelty. Children in immigration detention
- Author/publisher
- Burnett John, Carter Judith, Evershed Jon, Kohli Maya Bell, Powell Claire, de Wille Gervase
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
- Summary
- 141 cases are featured in this report, involving children who were detained between 2004 and April 2010. These children are from 87 different families. Medical Justice is the only organisation in the UK investigating inadequate medical care in Immigration Removal Centres. Independent doctors visit and assess detainees and Medical Justice facilitates the provision of legal advice. The organisation currently handles approximately 1,000 cases a year and the findings of this report are taken from the case work that Medical Justice conducts. This incorporates medical and legal evidence, testimonies from detainees and ex-detainees, and other associated information. The medical evidence used in this report comes from the work of 15 independent expert clinicians.
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