Children in immigration centres face deportation within weeks

Pilot scheme gives families with children facing removal a two-week ultimatum to leave the country voluntarily

Last week, Nick Clegg described the detention of children in centres such as Yarl’s Wood as a ‘moral outrage’. Immigration officials charged with carrying out the government’s pledge to end the detention of children in immigration centres have launched a scheme designed to deport them and their families from the country within weeks.

The move dashes expectations of a more liberal alternative to child detention. Families with children facing removal are to be given a two-week ultimatum to leave the country voluntarily, according to a document seen by the Guardian. Continue reading “Children in immigration centres face deportation within weeks”