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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Children who seek asylum, but end up in detention centres

There is a must-see Dispatches documentary on Channel 4 tonight - The Kids Britain Doesn't Want.

It's about the poor treatment meted out to children who arrive here because they are seeking refuge from persecution in their own countries. Many of them end up, separate from their parents, in detention centres, such as Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire.

The scandal was originally revealed by the investigative journalist Clare Sambrook, who picked up two awards a couple of weeks ago for her campaigning journalism on behalf of the children.

As a result of her researches, she helped to found the group called End Child Detention Now.

According to the Channel 4 publicity release, thousands of children suffer in an asylum system that, in some cases, causes them profound psychological and physical harm.

Dispatches will tell the stories of a 10-year-old Iranian boy - seen here on a video clip preview - a 16-year-old Afghan and a 22-year-old Ugandan woman.

The programme begins at 8pm.

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