Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Restraint of asylum young criticised / Guardian, 17 Jan 2005

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1391998,00.html
Diane Taylor and Hugh Muir
"Anti-deportation campaigners yesterday strongly criticised a Home Office document advising immigration officers on the use of 'control and restraint' techniques in deporting asylum seeker children from the UK.
Amid government promises to speed up the deportation of 'overstayers' and failed asylum seekers, and plans, for the first time, to deport unaccompanied child asylum seekers, officers are being schooled in the more controversial aspects of removing children with their parents from the UK.
Officials are being told that any immigration service official involved in such removals must be given training in control and restraint procedures and must have skills in paediatric emergency life saving. "