A/65/222 (e) Social protection (including access to education, health care, recreation and legal assistance), as well as contact with family in both countries of destination and origin, should be guaranteed: contact should also be facilitated with immigrant communities in destination countries and civil society institutions. 88. States should allow consular access to and independent scrutiny and control mechanisms of the conditions of immigration detention (judicial authorities, international and local non-governmental organizations, civil society, international human rights mechanisms, consular services and humanitarian institutions). 89. Policies should guarantee the enforcement of such alternatives by administrative and judicial authorities. 90. States should consider and use alternatives to immigration detention in accordance with international law and human rights standards. Detention should not be considered necessary or proportionate if other less restrictive measures to achieve the same legitimate objective have not been considered and assessed. 91. Alternatives to detention should be available to all irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, whether documented or undocumented. Recourse to alternative measures should be based on an individual assessment of the migrant’s particular circumstances and be available in practice without discrimination. 92. Alternative measures should be systematically considered by States before resorting to immigration detention. States should ensure that the conditions and criteria to choose alternative measures do not discriminate in law or practice against particular groups of non-nationals, whether on the basis of their origin, economic situation, immigration or other status. These means also should be: (a) The least intrusive and restrictive in order to attain the same objectives of immigration-related detention, such as avoiding that migrants abscond and guaranteeing their presence in court or at administrative proceedings; (b) Subjected to legal review and migrants should therefore be granted the possibility of challenging them before a judicial or other competent and independent authority or body. 93. States should provide alternatives to detention for family groups when parents are detained on the sole basis of migratory status, keeping in mind the necessary balance between the need to protect family unity and the best interests of the child. In all decisions concerning children, the best interests of the child should be the primary consideration. 94. States should enact and use a broad range of alternative measures. In developing such measures, States should draw on some of the existing practical alternatives already applied in some States. Alternative measures may include registration requirements; reporting or monitoring conditions; the deposit of a financial guarantee; or an obligation to stay at a designated address, an open centre or other special accommodation. Reporting requirements, where used, should not be unduly onerous, invasive or difficult to comply with. Bail, bond and surety should be made available to irregular migrants under conditions 22 10-47488