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We are delighted that recently Parliamentarians held a meeting to re-establish the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention. Following a vote by the membership, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Labour) was elected as the APPG’s new Chair, and Rt [...]
We are keen to promote this new briefing from the Migration Observatory, which examines immigration detention in the UK. It discusses who is detained, for how long, with what effects, and the financial costs of operating the system. [...]
At our last members meeting we heard about the work of our media group at our meeting. Our media group contains people with lived experience of immigration detention in the UK and who are powerful communicators. We are [...]
Our friends at the Keep Campsfield Closed Campaign have arranged the following demonstration: KEEP CAMPSFIELD CLOSED! 12 NOON 30 NOVEMBER 2024 CAMPSFIELD GATES LANGFORD LANE KIDLINGTON OX5 1RE BUS INFORMATION: S7 FROM MAGDALEN STREET (STOP C3) OXFORD People [...]
We are mourning the tragic news of another death at Brook House, after a man died at the detention centre on Sunday. This is almost a year since an Albanian man died at the same detention centre. Our [...]
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 [...]