Radio 4 "Sunday" programme on children in detention - 13/12/09

The section on immigration detention of children starts at 28.15 minutes and ends at 36.45 minutes.

You can fast-forward the pink bar to the 28.15 mark

Listen again to interviews with ;

* "Anna", a former child detainee who spent 67 days in detention and was taken to Yarl's Wood for a second time in a van with cages.  "Anna" is from a former Soviet republic and was later granted leave to remian in the UK.

* Dr. Kim Ehntholt, co-author of "The mental and physical health difficulties of children held within a British immigration detention centre: A pilot study".

* "Stephen", a Ugandan father whose family was detained. 

* Canon Nicholas Sagovsky, refused entry, together with 'Santa', into Yarl's Wood to deliver Christmas presents to detained children.

* David Wood from UKBA who said that organisations should work with UKBA to persuade asylum seeking and other migrant families to "go home".