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״A child protection crisis”: The UK's shocking neglect of asylum-seeking kids

״A child protection crisis”: The UK's shocking neglect of asylum-seeking kids

How can the state shrug off the fate of over 150 missing children but enact a law mandating forced MRI and X-ray tests to detect mythical adults pretending to be children?

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Sep 18, 2024
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Small boats, Rwanda, the right to work, the Bibby Stockholm - the mismanagement of the UK’s asylum system has dominated the final months of the Tories’ last full year in power. But alongside these well-publicised crises, another is unfolding in plain sight - the wilful neglect and outright mistreatment of another, even more vulnerable population: childr…

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