"Costly, ineffective and unjust" was one MP's description of immigration detention in the UK following an inquiry undertaken by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration published on 3 March. The inquiry raised concerns regarding the use of detention, but highlighted one issue in particular regarding children. While there has been a considerable reduction in the use of detention for children who are in families (from 1,119 detained in 2009 to about 100 in 2014), a number of unaccompanied children are still being held in adult facilities because they are unable to prove how old they are.
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