At an age when many kids are fingerpainting, children under five are being fingerprinted in Liverpool and Croydon asylum detention centres.
The excuse is apparently that some parents are trying to claim more than once for each child, but then they are only given £9.50 a week!
The six month trial could be spread across the country, presumably if money is saved and the technology works on such small fingers.
A spokeswoman for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said she would like to know the evidence of benefits being used to justify "that kind of intrusive action".
She was also concerned that fingerprints taken from children and kept on immigration databases might count against them if they tried to re-enter the UK later in life.
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17084155%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26page=2%26headline=infant%2dasylum%2dseekers%2dto%2dhave%2dfingerprints%2dtaken-name_page.html
The six month trial could be spread across the country, presumably if money is saved and the technology works on such small fingers.
A spokeswoman for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said she would like to know the evidence of benefits being used to justify "that kind of intrusive action".
She was also concerned that fingerprints taken from children and kept on immigration databases might count against them if they tried to re-enter the UK later in life.
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17084155%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26page=2%26headline=infant%2dasylum%2dseekers%2dto%2dhave%2dfingerprints%2dtaken-name_page.html
