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Tom Brake MP: YES, we are bringing an end to the detention of child refugees

August 13, 2011 11:35 AM

brake• [Aug 10] Tom Brake writes: In her article on the detention of child refugees, Natasha Walter asks: "If a locked centre is called 'pre-departure accommodation', does it cease to be detention?" (Guardian, Britain is still no refuge for refugees, 28 July). The current practices with regard to children awaiting deportation cannot be - and should not be - in any way compared to the shameful past . .

Regardless of how you choose to define the word "detention", to make the sweeping declaration that child detention "never went away, and is now making a comeback", as Walter does, belittles the efforts of the Liberal Democrats over many years to bring an end to child detention and the progress that has been made on the issue.

• Tom Brake MP: YES, we are bringing an end to the detention of child refugees [Guardian Aug 10]

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