Home Office still plans to X-ray migrants to check age, despite warnings about accuracy

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Home Office still plans to X-ray migrants to check age, despite warnings about accuracy
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The Home Office will press ahead with X-ray and MRI scans of migrants to assess whether they are lying about being children ➡️ This is despite scientific advice concluding it is impossible to predict age with “precision” 🔴 singharj

X-ray and MRI scans of asylum seekers’ teeth and bones

Ultimately, X-rays of wisdom teeth, hand and wrist bones, and MRI scans of knee bones and the collar bone, should be used alongside existing social worker-led age assessments – despite the Government criticising the existing process as time consuming, challenging and expensive, the advice said. arguing this would stop “single grown adult men masquerading as children” in an “abuse” of the asylum system.

The report said: “There is no method, biological or social worker-led, that can predict age with precision therefore, biological assessment of age should consider whether the age claimed by the UASC is “possible” rather than be used to answer the specific question of how old that person is or whether they are under or over 18 years of age.”

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