Data shows immigration officers are more than 2X as likely to misclassify the age of youth compared to social workers.
Children wrongly assessed as adults have been charged with immigration offences and are being held in adult prisons, with some having already survived torture.
shorturl.at/EpxXL
theguardian.com
Immigration officers more likely than social workers to assess UK asylum seekers as adults
Local authorities deem young arrivals to be children more than twice as often as border forces, Home Office data shows