At our recent members' meeting, we discussed our three key priorities for our engagement with the new Government and Parliament. They are as follows: Keep Haslar (in Hampshire) and Campsfield (in Oxfordshire) detention centres closed A 28 day [...]
The Detention Forum is happy to be joining our friends at Rene Cassin and Rainbow Migration at an online event next week promoting the compassionate alternative to immigration detention - welcome the stranger: the need for alternatives to [...]
Following on from the Brook House Inquiry, we were saddened to see the recent publication of another independent report this time showing that since then safety has got worse for the people detained there. The findings were published [...]
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 [...]