Children should not be detained for immigration-related purposes, irrespective of their legal/migratory status or that of their parents, and detention is never in their best interests. Appropriate care arrangements and community-based programmes need to be in place to ensure adequate reception of children and their families. UNHCR’s position regarding the detention of refugee and migrant children in the migration context, January 2017.12 This tool should be read together with12 the Monitoring Immigration Detention: Practical Manual,13 which proposes a practical methodology for carrying out detention monitoring to ensure detention conditions meet international standards and are in line with UNHCR’s Policy on Detention Monitoring.14 This tool may be used in a range of locations MONITORING that serve as detention places, including but not IMMIGRATION DETENTION Practical Manual limited to: designated immigration detention centres; removal or transit centres; closed reception or processing centres; airports, ports, transit and “international zones”; harbour facilities; islands; vehicles, aeroplanes, boats or other vessels; prisons, police lockups or police stations; military bases; medical facilities and psychiatric institutions; or any other place where people are physically deprived of their liberty for immigration-related or criminal purposes. 12 See UNHCR, UNHCR’s position regarding the detention of refugee and migrant children in the migration context, January 2017, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5885c2434.html. 13 See UNHCR, Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and the International Detention Coalition (IDC), Monitoring Immigration Detention: Practical Manual, 2014, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/53706e354.html. 14 See UNHCR, Policy on Detention Monitoring, 3 December 2015, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/564199b54.html. A tool for their identification and enhanced protection 9