Key Facts
- Nearly 1,000 children a year are detained in UKBA immigration detention centres.
- On average, children spend over a fortnight in detention (15.58 days). Detention for up to 61 days is not uncommon. On 30 June 2009, 10 of the 35 children in detention had been held for between 29 days and 61 days.
- It costs £130 a day to keep a person in detention; in the most extreme situations, detaining a family of four for between 4 and 8 weeks costs over £20,000.
- Over 90% of judicial reviews do not even get leave for hearing.
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