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Social Care News: Asylum-seeking children - Officials causing mental trauma

Children in asylum-seeking families are being physically abused and left with mental health problems by immigration officials, according to a damning report by the Institute of Race Relations.

The Deportation Machine draws on case studies across Europe to highlight allegations of human rights abuses by immigration authorities.

Report author and institute deputy director Liz Fekete said one of the worst cases in the UK involved the deportation last month of Kurdish woman Ruir Thaha and her two children, Hannah, 12 and Sebrin, 14, to Germany.

In a statement given to anti-racism charity The Monitoring Group, Sebrin alleged her hair was pulled and she was hit by a UK official.

England's children's commissioner Al Aynsley-Green is understood to have requested details of the case.

www.irr.org.uk.

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