Health care for children in UK detention centres.

摘要

About 2000 children up to the age of 18 years are held in UK detention centres every year. Many are children of families who have been refused asylum or have overstayed their visas; some are asylum seekers or are detained on arrival because they have no identification papers. Often families are taken from their homes with no time to pack even essential medicines and clothes. Once at a detention centre, which for families is usually Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, children are essentially imprisoned with little to do, and provided with inadequate education and health care.