Tougher Controls on Refugee Children?

Details of conversations would be passed on to the Directorate of Immigration, frontier guard officials and the police. The information would be used in determining whether the family should be granted asylum or be deported.

Refugee centre personnel would be legally obliged to divulge the content of any overheard conversation.

Those opposed to the proposed legislation call it a snooper's charter. They say it infringes a child's privacy and could cause psychological damage if children become afraid to speak.

The legislation is aimed at so-called B-permit children. These under-aged refugee children come mainly from Somalia or Afghanistan. As their residence status is only temporary, they do not receive any education or day care.

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