Families, children and detention
BID provides legal assistance to a large number of parents who have been separated from their children by immigration detention. Their children, some of them babies and toddlers, may be living with another parent, or a family member, or may be in care. Separation from their parents causes them extreme distress - many of our clients’ children have lost weight, suffered from recurring nightmares, and experienced insomnia during their parent's enforced absence.
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Detention of children
Since 2002, BID has been campaigning to end the immigration detention of children and their families. We were therefore delighted in May 2010, when the coalition government announced that child detention would end. Yet children continue to be detained, so we are calling on the government to fulfil their commitment to end this unacceptable practice.
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