Earlier this month the Home Office announced plans under the Nationality and Borders Bill to bring in “new scientific methods” for assessing the age of asylum-seeking children.
Methods already used in other countries under consideration include x-ray and CT scans as well as MRI imaging.
But MPs and lords sitting on the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) warn that medical experts have called into question the accuracy of such methods to test the age of children.
They are also concerned that the use of such potentially traumatic medical procedures on children could be “unethical”.
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