x Inability to cooperate: Every legal action concerning a child¶s legal status demands time, seriousness and commitment to intensive cooperation between the lawyers the social worker - the interpreter and last ± but not least ± the child. During detention, there is no such time. Communication and cooperation depends on many uncertain factors (e.g. the schedule of the custodial staff, their work burden, their discretion, the FKLOG¶V PHQWDO DQG SV\FKRORJLFDO GLVSRVLWLRQ . All these can not always be foreseen and settled in advance. In such circumstances it was impossible for the minors to cooperate to the extent necessary. x Family ³ ORVH´ : Particularly alarming has been the fact that, in too many occasions, arrest and detention of the child had inexcusably LQWHUIHUHGZLWKWKHFKLOG¶VHIIRUW± and right for that matter- to regain family contact. On more than one occasion, family ties seemed actually broken for good, while at other times, any attempt of reunification was rendered futile. H.K, male aged 14, is noted March 2011 among detainees by GCR. He has already been detained for two months and his intension is to reach his sister, a recognized refugee residing in the U.K. He has no money to buy a pre-paid card; hence he was not allowed to use the telephone and speak with her. He knows nothing about asylum or the reunification procedure. The members of the mission are the first persons asking him anything on his situation so he is hesitant and suspicious. The next day, before his sister could be located and examine any possibility of a reunification, he was transferred to a reception centre in Mitilini. Although GCR immediately searched for him in the centre, the child had already left to continue his journey. 27