Children who have been refused asylum should not be held in detention centre before being deported, the children’s commissioner for England said today. Sir Al Aynsley-Green said in a report that the government’s policy of holding about 2,000 children a year in removal centres could be “harmful to their health and wellbeing”.

He urged ministers to develop community-based alternatives to detention, with detention only being used as “a last resort”.

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