UK MUST GUARANTEE NO CHILDREN ARE IN DUNGAVEL DETENTION FACILITY.
JIM MURPHY FAILING TO GUARANTEE THAT NO CHILD WILL BE DETAINED.
Commenting on the announcement by the Border and Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas, on approached to the welfare of children by the new UK Border Agency, Central Scotland MSP Christina McKelvie called for clarity on whether the proposed pilot project aimed at ending the detention of children at Dungavel would guarantee that no children at all are held in the facility.
Ms McKelvie, who has campaigned on the issue of the detention of children at Dungavel, wrote to the Scottish Secretary in October last year after he announced the pilot asking for such a guarantee.
She has still to receive a reply. Commenting Ms McKelvie said: "Any moves that lead to the end of detaining children at Dungavel are to be welcomed but questions still remain about whether this will mean that no child at all will be held at Dungave l and whether there are children in Dungavel now.
"I wrote to the Scottish Secretary when he announced this pilot asking if he could guarantee that no child would be held in Dungavel. I am still awaiting a reply.
"This is despite one of my Parliamentary colleagues receiving a reply to a letter on another issue he sent on the same day he sent it! "
The SNP has had a long-standing commitment to ending this practice and has repeatedly called on the UK Government to act - not only in practice but in law through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"This decision for a pilot should mean that Dungavel will no longer be used to imprison innocent children beside potentially dangerous adults. However the silence from Jim Murphy on this issue only raises suspicions."
JIM MURPHY FAILING TO GUARANTEE THAT NO CHILD WILL BE DETAINED.
Commenting on the announcement by the Border and Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas, on approached to the welfare of children by the new UK Border Agency, Central Scotland MSP Christina McKelvie called for clarity on whether the proposed pilot project aimed at ending the detention of children at Dungavel would guarantee that no children at all are held in the facility.
Ms McKelvie, who has campaigned on the issue of the detention of children at Dungavel, wrote to the Scottish Secretary in October last year after he announced the pilot asking for such a guarantee.
She has still to receive a reply. Commenting Ms McKelvie said: "Any moves that lead to the end of detaining children at Dungavel are to be welcomed but questions still remain about whether this will mean that no child at all will be held at Dungave l and whether there are children in Dungavel now.
"I wrote to the Scottish Secretary when he announced this pilot asking if he could guarantee that no child would be held in Dungavel. I am still awaiting a reply.
"This is despite one of my Parliamentary colleagues receiving a reply to a letter on another issue he sent on the same day he sent it! "
The SNP has had a long-standing commitment to ending this practice and has repeatedly called on the UK Government to act - not only in practice but in law through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"This decision for a pilot should mean that Dungavel will no longer be used to imprison innocent children beside potentially dangerous adults. However the silence from Jim Murphy on this issue only raises suspicions."
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