Protest at child detention

As we went to press, UNISON Scotland was protesting to the government about the detention of an asylum seeking mother and her traumatised four-year-old child in Dungavel.

And in a letter to the Sunday Herald, Kate Ramsden of UNISON Scotland’s Social Work Issues Group, wrote: “If you can judge a society by how its most vulnerable people are treated, what does it say about Scotland that we lock up vulnerable children along with their parent who has fled and is dealing with the aftermath of appalling human rights abuses?”

“This does not just affect the child who is locked up, but also impacts on their friends and their classmates, who see their friend “disappear” and wonder when it will happen to them.

“We have a glowing beacon of legislation in this country in the Children (Scotland) Act but to genuinely live by its principles we all need to fight for an end to dawn raids and the locking up of our children and vulnerable citizens. All it takes is for good people to do nothing….”

For updates, check www.unison-scotland.org.uk/socialwork.

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