Further to the recent attempt by the Government to expand the detention centre at Campsfield in Oxfordshire by using the Crown Development Route, the planning inspectorate has agreed to hold a public inquiry. Whilst we had wanted this [...]
The Chair of the Independent Monitoring board has written to the Minister for Border Security and Asylum to raise serious concerns about the treatment of individuals detained under the UK France ‘one in, one out’ scheme, known operationally [...]
Our friends at BID have published a powerful new report on impact of accommodation delays on release from Immigration Detention. There are widespread and excessive delays in securing post-immigration detention accommodation, resulting in individuals remaining in detention despite [...]
We are grateful to our friends at Right to Remain for their helpful blog on the Government's plan to open a 600 bed immigration detention centre in Gosport, Hampshire. Fresh from opposing their plan to expand the detention [...]
Campsfield immigration detention centre, just north of Oxford, re-opened last year with 160 beds, despite the opposition of the parish, district and county councils. Now the Home Office has applied for permission to more than double its size [...]
We were interested to see the recent publication of the annual report of the Independent Monitoring Boards, which covers findings from IMBs across prisons, young offender institutions and the immigration detention estate. We wanted to highlight some of [...]
Bail for Immigration Detainees has published their latest Legal Advice Survey. It finds the lowest levels of legal representation in immigration detention in BID's 15 year records - with only 27% of detained individuals who they spoke with [...]
The Detention Forum has long been concerned about the operation of the UK Government’s short-term holding facilities in Northern France as being at risk of being out of sight and therefore out of mind. We were pleased when [...]
The Home Office has been consulting on proposed changes to Family Returns: Reforming Asylum Support and Enforcing Family Returns, with proposals regarding families with children, adults and care leavers once they are appeals rights exhausted, leaving them destitute [...]
We were saddened to learn of the Government's recent deal with the French Government to open a new detention centre in Dunkirk, Northern France. This 140 capacity centre is aimed to detain people from the top nationalities looking [...]