>>I have just read with dismay that Barnardo's will be acting as service provider for the new family detention centre at Pease Pottage, Sussex.

It may have been repackaged as “pre-departure accommodation”, but however you try to spin this, it is effectively a prison for containing families. Families who will then be returned to countries from which they have fled, often in fear for their lives or having suffered violence & in some cases torture.

Shame on you Barnado's for even considering taking part in this vile business. The way we treat refugees in this country is appalling, and now the government are buying the services of 'charities' to make it seem less brutal.

I have donated to Barnardo's in the past, but I will never do so again.
We would therefore ask people to write to  info@barnardos.org.uk and to make a separate complaint to  complaints@rednoseday.com, since the latter are funding Barnardos, who probably haven't advertised their involvement in the practice of child detention.

And if Barnardos doesn't back off with its involvement in the new detention centre in Pease Pottage we intend to picket the shops of these hypocrites until they understand the meaning of ethical behaviour.