Morton Hall Detention Centre to close next year
We've just seen the welcome news that Morton Hall Detention Centre is due to close next year. And we're keen to promote the blog post just put out by one of our members, AVID with a quote from [...]
APPG on Immigration Detention
We are really excited at the development co-ordinated by Medical Justice setting up an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention. We think this is a really welcome initiative, and it is great to see over 35 Parliamentarians [...]
BID response to Home Office position paper against a Time Limit
Last week in all of the activity building up to the debate in the House of Commons on the Report stage of the Immigration Bill, the Home Office published a 'media factsheet: detention time limits'. It is worth [...]
Time Limit – the campaign continues
We were really disappointed to see that the amendments tabled by David Davis MP, despite attracting wide cross-party support, were defeated at Report stage of the Immigration Bill last week in Parliament. But we were really taken by [...]
Time Limit – Immigration Bill update
David Davis MP has re-tabled his amendments to the Immigration Bill on detention in readiness for Report stage, which may be as early as next week. It is so great to see support growing cross-party for these amendments, [...]
Detention in Scotland
The current Covid-19 crisis has prompted a lot of reflection among organisations like SDV that support and advocate for people affected by immigration detention. Ali McGinley in an earlier blog for Detention Forum discussed how the recent large [...]
Immigration detention is an LGBTQI+ issue: The LGBTQI+ community must stand with those fleeing oppression
June is Pride month. Pride was and still is a protest, but this can sometimes be forgotten in countries like the UK where LGBTQI+ rights have advanced significantly. For many people, Pride is a celebration. But to view [...]
Recruiting new Detention Forum volunteers
At Detention Forum, we have a dynamic and committed team of volunteers, who help us to engage with our 12,000+ followers on Twitter and many, many more people. The current team of 7 volunteers come from a range [...]
Time limit – Immigration Bill update
The cross-party group of MPs promoting the time limit amendments to the Immigration Bill are keen to ensure proper debate of these amendments at Report stage. So, we understand that they have decided to withdraw these amendments for [...]
An End to Immigration Detention?
Over the last two members’ meetings at Detention Forum, we have been having a discussion about our ultimate goal in the context of our new theory of change. Some members welcomed the chance to focus on a bigger [...]