A MEMBER of the expert panel on asylum seekers has slammed the government for allowing children to be placed in detention on Manus Island.
Refugee expert Paris Aristotle said the myriad safeguards outlined in the expert panel's report handed down in August had not been implemented.
While recommending Australia re-establish offshore processing centres for asylum seekers, the panel also outlined a range of measures designed to ensure the mental health of detainees was protected.
Mr Aristotle said his greatest issue of concern was people, and children in particular, being placed in arbitrary detention.
"I don't think that was ever a part of the panel's recommendations, and in my view, something needs to be done to address that immediately," Mr Aristotle said in an interview on Lateline.
"If they were free to move around, if there were adequate services available for them and so forth, then that may have been an acceptable option."
Mr Aristotle said it was unacceptable children were still being placed in detention more than six months after the panel handed down its report.
A MEMBER of the expert panel on asylum seekers has slammed the government for allowing children to be placed in detention on Manus Island....