Tuesday,
April 28 - Following a report by the children's
commissioner for England Sir
Al Aynsley-Green, JRS Europe Policy and Advocacy
Officer Philip Amaral spoke with the BBC Europe Today programme to discuss the report and the British
government's stance on the detention of children.
The report stated that each year 2,000
children are held in detention centres in the UK for
stays averaging 15
days. The report made 42 recommendations that
would truly make the detention of children a 'last
resort'.
Sir Al Aynsley-Green warned in the report that children
found Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, in
Bedfordshire, "like being in prison".
