The Detention Forum was proud to add its name to the recent joint letter co-ordinated by AVID expressing our opposition to the proposed re-opening of the detention centres at Haslar in Hampshire and Campsfield in Oxfordshire. The signatories [...]
In the last Parliament, we had become sadly quite used to the last Government's response to any questions about the Home Office funded community-based alternatives to detention pilot projects - for example: see here. Just recently Olivia Blake [...]
We were interested to read the media story yesterday focussing on HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' recent reports into Detention Centres. Following on from his recent report on Harmondsworth, all eight main detention centres in the UK have [...]
The report on the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre was published by HM Inspector of Prisons yesterday and it was said that inspectors returning to this detention centre found the worst conditions that they have ever found in immigration [...]
We held our first in person conference at Detention Forum in five years last month, and it was so energising to bring our network and partners together. We met at the Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre in London [...]
The Jesuit Refugee Service UK has recently published a new report, After Brook House: continued abuse in immigration detention, revealing that patterns of mistreatment detailed by the high-profile Independent Inquiry into events at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre [...]
We were delighted to see the Guardian newspaper recently cover the issue of the UK short-term holding facilities in Northern France and to be quoted in it. It was great to see some profile of this troublesome and [...]
Last week we held an online briefing for our members with the impressive Micro Rainbow about their independent community based alternative to immigration detention. We have talked a lot in the past about the independent project run by [...]
Back in 2014, our Forum played a key role in the energy and work that led to the ground breaking APPG review into immigration detention. This initiative provoked widespread unease by politicians across the House and led to [...]
This week saw the sad news that the UK Safety of Rwanda Bill followed passed through all of its Parliamentary stages. Over the months we have continued to raise our concerns and our objections to this drastic change [...]