His comment follows a damning report by Anne Owers, the chief inspectorof prisons, on three British centres in the French port of Calais."There was no child protection policy in any of the centres and none hadadequate childcare and child protection procedures," she said. "Staffhad not undergone enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks at the time ofinspection and none of the custody staff had received child protectiontraining."
Staff referred to one centre as the "dog kennels". Owers said: "Theconditions are not suitable for anybody, let alone children. There isthe question of whether French or English law applies in these centres.When we went nobody knew."
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