The detention of children at immigration centres is distressing and harmful, according to the children's commission. (politics.co.uk)
Clegg also promised to fulfil the government's pledge to end child detention by closing the Yarl's Wood immigration centre in Bedfordshire. (theguardian.com)
The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers. (labour-uncut.co.uk)