The Home Office has announced it has awarded a company a contract to develop technology to detect the age of adult migrants posing as children.

A Harlow-based software firm, Akhter Computers LTD, has been awarded a new contract by the Home Office to develop the technology this week.

The UK government is moving ahead with plans to introduce artificial intelligence technology at the border to help identify asylum seekers who falsely claim to be children.

The Home Office has announced it has awarded a company a contract to develop technology to detect the age of adult migrants posing as children.

New technology to be deployed from next year for strengthening asylum checks.