Today's announcements double down on approaches which have already led to record deaths, with more children killed last year than in the past four years combined. We urgently need to depart from these deadly policies.

Numbers we'd like to see come down: - People dying in the channel - Children traumatised by violent border enforcement - People unable to return to work due to the damage of the asylum work ban Numbers our Government won't even count, while the media obsesses over how many people survive crossings.

Today Yvette Cooper said she wants to criminalise people crossing the Channel "to keep children safe". She clearly hasn't read our report! Our research shows how increased securitization of the UK France border doesn't keep children safe, it puts them in danger 👇

"[The police] bring out the knives and pepper spray, then guns... I’m only a child. Why are you doing this?” Every day we see the UK and France pursuing policies which not only fail to protect children's rights, but actively threaten and undermine them 👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📣 Our new report, highlighting the devastating impact of increasing violence against children on the UK-France border, is out today. It centres the voices of the children we worked with in 2024, and is dedicated to those killed on the border last year. www.project-play.org/we-want-to-b...