It follows the recent revelation that the Home Office is drawing upplans to deport up to 500 children back to Vietnam.
Lisa Nandy, chair of the Refugee Children's Consortium, said: "The HomeOffice's own action plan on trafficking recognises that it is virtuallyimpossible to identify children who have been trafficked. So we havebeen talking to officials who've drawn up this plan and pointed out thatthis latest plan potentially undermines what they are trying to do."
She added: "How we determine what's in a child's best interests is quitedifferent from what the Home Office thinks. It all comes back to theconflict between immigration control and child welfare." The Home Officesaid the policy was still at the planning stage.
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