The hard-hitting truth is that the Illegal Migration Bill is asking us to allow the unconscionable and at what cost? 🖊️ The Bishop of Durham via ipaperviews
As the House of Commons looks to discuss the amendments that have been made to theit remains the unified opinion of all the Bishops in the House of Lords that the detention of children without any limit is simply morally unjustified. The strength of opposition to any change to the current restrictions on the detention of both accompanied and unaccompanied children is because it is one of the most alarming and unedifying provisions of the Bill.
In 2010 a Conservative-led Government took the brave decision to end the routine detention of children for immigration purposes. That’s because the evidence of its devastating effects on children was overwhelming. Restrictions were put into law making clear that unaccompanied children could only be detained for up to 24 hours and children with family could be held for no more than 72 hours.
Ministers have set out their view that we must detain children for immigration purposes to ensure that we do not create incentives for people smugglers to target vulnerable individuals. They have, however, provided no evidence to support this. In fact, in 2011 when the routine detention of children ended, there was no proportional increase in the number of children claiming asylum.
But the stark evidence we do have is of the immeasurable harm detention inflicts on the very children we should be protecting. It remains a fact that the inescapable institutional nature of detention affects both a child’s physical and mental development and leads to their significant emotional and psychological regression. As a young woman, formerly detained as child, shared with Citizens UK:. The documented evidence has not changed.
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