Responding to a critical prison inspectorate report on the four holdingcentres, McNulty said he did "not consider children to be at risk ofharm in any one of these facilities".
But Owers told Children Now a lack of child protection procedures at thecentres meant he could not be sure.
"I don't think the minister has the procedures in place to be able tosay that children in these centres are not at risk," she said.
The inspection report looked at four centres, at London City Airport,two at Gatwick and the Dover Asylum Screening Centre.
- www.homeoffice.gov.uk.
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