Will the new Minister listen to us and work with us to change this immigration detention system? https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/948509351760875522 While 2017 ended with a welcome news of the closure of the Verne detention centre, 2018 opened with a change [...]
We are looking for volunteers! If you are interested, please read the text below carefully before applying! We are particularly keen to hear people from migrant background to make our team even more multinational and involve more migrants in our work. We [...]
Today, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons have released their report on their most recent independent and unannounced inspection of Yarl's Wood detention centre. The centre was last inspected in 2015. This inspection showed some improvements in conditions for [...]
In a letter to key stakeholders, the Home Office has today announced the closure of The Verne Immigration Removal Centre. It is understood that the centre will be closed at the end of 2017 as ‘part of wider [...]
Following the death of a Chinese person at Dungavel in Scotland and the Panorama documentary on Brook House near Gatwick Airport, immigration detention is yet again under intense scrutiny. At the Labour party conference in Brighton, a number of campaigners [...]
Social media volunteers needed! Deadline 2 October 2017 We are looking for one to two (or maybe three) enthusiastic and curious volunteers who have a deep interest in and commitment to migrants rights movement and challenging immigration detention and can help us increase [...]
Responses to the Panorama documentary on Brook House Immigration Detention Centre - will the government be let off the hook again? The undercover Panorama documentary on Brook House Immigration Detention Centre prompted a range of reactions and comments from all [...]
4 September 2017 Our parliamentary latest briefing paper, Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom is now available. You can download it here. Now is the time that you speak to your MPs, Peers and your communities about the urgent [...]
1 September 2017 The Detention Forum statement in response to the news of G4S suspending its staff as part of abuse investigation. 'We welcome the news that G4S has suspended nine staff members who are being investigated over [...]
24 August 2017 The latest detention statistics released today reveal that the Government is failing to drastically reduce the use of immigration detention as recommended by the Parliamentary Inquiry and the Government-commissioned Shaw Review. Nearly 28,000 migrants are [...]