Campaigners say there should be a data ‘firewall’ between the Home Office and the NHS

A family faces deportation after the Home Office used a comment by their suicidal daughter to a psychiatric nurse to claim they were lying about their right to asylum in the UK.

The decision to use a child’s medical records was condemned last night as “absolutely disgraceful” and “deeply dangerous”.

The girl, who lives in the northeast and cannot be named, had been given a “sugar-coated” version of why her family had to flee Albania for a new life in Britain. Her father did not tell the child about an alleged assassination attempt on his life by the local mafia.

At an interview with a psychiatric nurse, 48 hours after the girl overdosed in 2016, the child said her family came to Britain to “have