Detention Of Children

EDM number 1982 in 2008-09, proposed by Chris Mullin on 12/10/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Immigration.

That this House notes with concern that around 2,000 children are detained each year in immigration detention centres, some for periods of several months; notes the opinion of Save the Children and the Children's Commissioner that this is unjustified and damaging; notes that families with children are among the least likely to abscond; further notes that some EU and Commonwealth countries have successfully introduced solutions other than secure detention for families who have exhausted their asylum claims; and urgently calls on the Government to end the practice of holding children in immigration detention centres.

This motion has been signed by a total of 94 MPs.