‘I was left homeless after the Home Office claimed I wasn’t a child’
- Posted on December 21, 2025
- By The Independent
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‘I was left homeless after the Home Office claimed I wasn’t a child’

The Home Office has advertised a £1.3 million contract for an algorithm that can ‘accurately predict someone’s age’. One former asylum seeker tells Holly Bancroft why he thinks this could go very wrong