A new facility to accommodate asylum seekers and their children has been condemned by campaigners, six months after the government promised to end the mistreatment of minors in immigration centres.

The centre due to open next month in Croydon, south London, emerged amid anger that since the May general election, despite deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s description of child detention as “state-sponsored cruelty” and a “moral outrage”, over 100 children have faced detention at such centres.

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