Philip Pullman, Monica Ali, Nick Hornby have joined the New Statesman's 'No Place for Children' campaign.

The campaign is calling for an end to the detention of 2,000 children a year in UK Immigration Removal Centres.

Children in detention centres do not have access to adequate healthcare and education, and they can be held for an unlimited period of time. The psychological and physical effects are often devastating.

There is an online petition here.

Articles on this issue, testimonies from detainees and other information on the No Place for Children campaign can be found here.