Shabana Mahmood ’s plans to detain and handcuff children during family deportations are “abhorrent” and will cause “lasting damage”, nearly 150 children’s charities and organisations have warned. In a joint letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Monday, fostering organisations, social care workers and refugee charities accused the government of a “sustained attack on children’s rights”. The home secretary has announced a number of immigration reforms that will impact children, such as delaying routes to settlement for families already in the UK and removing support from families refused asylum. Ms Mahmood is currently consulting on a push to increase deportations of failed asylum-seeking families and on changes that will allow physical force to be used against children. The government’s consultation document makes clear that a child can be physically handled if they are resisting their deportation .…