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Child detainees in �1m compensation deal

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The Home Office has paid more than £1 million in compensation for wrongly detaining 40 child asylum seekers as adults. The case was settled in 2010, and revealed after a Freedom of Information request from The Guardian newspaper. Our reporter Andrew Plant explains the case.


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