The Joint Committee on Human Rights, chaired by Andrew Dismore MP, is investigating breaches of human rights for asylum-seeking young people and those in detention.
Lisa Nandy, policy officer at The Children's Society, said: "We asked the committee to hold an inquiry because policy for adult asylum seekers has increasingly shifted towards children and young people over the past five years." She said about 2,000 young people are kept in detention centres each year.
Dr Heaven Crawley, senior researcher at Swansea University and special adviser to the committee, said: "Of 5,000 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that came last year, 2,500 were age-disputed and treated as adults.
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