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When child asylum seekers are wrongly classified as adults

Since January 2018 Newsnight has uncovered 90 cases where child asylum seekers have been incorrectly classified as adults.
This means many vulnerable child asylum seekers are denied the protections they are entitled to.
Katie Razzall and Jake Morris investigate the extent of the problem.

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