Councils in London are to provide new accommodation facilities for children in police custody after a judge ruled they are not meeting their statutory duty.
The Court of Appeal found Waltham Forest LBC had acted unlawfully by failing to provide ‘appropriate alternative accommodation’ for an arrested teenager who had to be detained in a police cell.
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