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Amendment 194 would require that whenever the Home Office determines that someone claiming to be a child is in fact an adult, local authorities must be notified and given an opportunity to conduct or review an age assessment before any placement in adult accommodation or detention occurs. This is a recipe for more endless appeals, endless second-guessing and endless delay. If the Home Office, with all the information at its disposal, has determined that an individual is an adult, then that decision must stand.