Tom Sanderson

Tom Sanderson is a freelance researcher, and volunteer campaigner with End Child Detention Now. He currently works at the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

How children’s charity Barnardo’s locks up kids with Guantánamo contractor G4S

Britain’s leading children’s charity helps the world’s biggest security company lock up children who have committed no crime.

By Tom Sanderson

/ 8 Sep 2014

Boy locked up for months in adult immigration jail

Child detention goes on in the UK regardless of government claims to have ended it.

By Tom Sanderson

/ 12 Jun 2013

G4S uses ‘unacceptable’ force on pregnant detainee at UK family detention centre

HM Inspectorate of Prisons report finds that G4S security staff at a UK Border Agency detention facility “deserve great credit”, despite unacceptable use of force on pregnant detainee.

By Tom Sanderson

/ 24 Oct 2012

Coalition promise in tatters as Home Office 'independent' panel wants more children detained

The Coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes, and appointed an 'independent' panel to protect children caught up in the asylum system. That Panel's first annual report rightly exposes a commercial contractor's ineptitude — and unwittingly reveals its own captur

By Tom Sanderson

/ 27 Sep 2012

Illuminating the UK’s lethal detention and deportation conditions

Public interest groups challenge immigration authorities' hazardous policy and practice.

By Tom Sanderson

/ 9 Dec 2011

Selling the state: the 'unethical' companies taking over UK public services

Some of the companies moving in on the British public sector are among the most unethical in the country. Of these, those entrusted with the care of asylum seekers rank with the very worst.

By Tom Sanderson

/ 26 Sep 2011