A group of people, including young children, walk up the beach in Dungeness, Kent, after being rescued by a RNLI Dungeness Lifeboat in the Channel, April 27, 2023
CHILD migrants detained under widely condemned new laws could develop suicidal behaviour, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, health experts have warned.
A coalition of leading medical organisations has written to the government to condemn the child detention provisions set out in the Illegal Migration Bill.
The groups said such provisions could leave young people suffering from a significant deterioration in their mental and physical health, including emotional and psychological regression, post-traumatic stress disorder, clinical depression and suicidal behaviour.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
