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#age-assessment

Hundreds of migrant children have been put at "significant risk" in hotels or detention centres after they were wrongly assessed to be adults by the Home Office, a damning new report has found. At least 755 children were wrongly placed in adult accommodation or detention last year after officials concluded they were adults during visual assessments at the border, data reported by the Helen Bamber Foundation shows.

Almost 200 adult asylum-seekers were placed in Tusla children's accommodation over the last three years before it was learned they were over 18.