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The UK Border Agency's long, punitive campaign against children

OpenDemocracy (London), 2012-12

Copyright OpenDemocracy Ltd. Jul 16, 2012 ;Copyright OpenDemocracy Ltd. Dec 27, 2012 ;EISSN: 1476-5888

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  • Title:
    The UK Border Agency's long, punitive campaign against children
  • Author: Sambrook, Clare
  • Subjects: Boundaries ; Children & youth ; Hospitals ; Journalism ; Outsourcing ; Scandals
  • Is Part Of: OpenDemocracy (London), 2012-12
  • Description: The Labour government's aggressive acceleration of the detention policy in 2001 gave the security industry new opportunities to extract profit from every step of the process: arrest, transport, detention, removal -- even healthcare and social work within the rapidly expanding "detention estate". The Home Office and its Agency brushed aside repeated warnings from successive European Union Human Rights Commissioners and repeated recommendations from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), urging over years that the detention of children should happen only in exceptional circumstances, and decisions must be based on "independent and immediate welfare and needs assessments of each child." Handcuffs in hospital The security industry's priorities, culture and clout shine in a chilling "Memorandum of Understanding" struck in 2005 between Yarl's Wood's managers, GSL, and Bedford Hospital which empowered GSL to handcuff children who needed hospital care.
  • Publisher: London: OpenDemocracy
  • Language: Italian;English
  • Identifier: EISSN: 1476-5888
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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