X-rays to check child asylum seekers' age risk harm and are unreliable'

X-rays to check child asylum seekers' age risk radiation harm and are unreliable, the government has been warned.An expert committee commissioned by the Home Office concluded that no method proves a person's exact age, and that tests proposed by ministers are only able to say if migrants' claimed age is possible, rather than be used to answer the specific question of whether they are under or over 18.

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