Long wait for Home Office decision led to at least one child attempting suicide, the Guardian has learned
Children who were forced to languish in Calais for up to a year as they waited for the Home Office to transfer them to the UK went on hunger strike and in at least one case a child attempted suicide, the Guardian has learned.
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