The New Londoners magazine

Refugee, asylum and children's welfare organizations are concerned about the Home Office's consideration of taking children into care while their parents are detained. Guardian Correspondent Simon Parker argues that this would be to substitute one form of state child abuse with another not only because it would be contrary to article 8 of the European convention on human rights, but also because it would make social workers complicit in damaging rather than protecting the welfare of the child. (Simon Parker, The Guardian, 28 May 2010)