DPM: Project to move children out of detention centres in the works

The government is expected to roll out a pilot project trialling an alternative to detention programme, which, if successful, could see hundreds of children moved out of immigration detention centres nationwide.

The standard operating procedures for the pilot project, which involves moving children from immigration detention centres to NGO shelters, are to be finalised by the end of this month, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said...