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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 [...]
This week the Detention Forum was fortunate enough to be invited to attend and speak at the campaign meeting of NoTo Hassockfield. They are members of our Forum, and it is always inspiring when we are able to [...]
Our friends at the Coalition to Close Campsfield have sent us this important update below - do please help them to spread the word! Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre near Kidlington just north of Oxford closed in 2018 after [...]
The Government’s chief inspector of prisons recently published his findings from the unannounced inspection of Derwentside IRC. We are keen to echo the views of our member No to Hassockfield on this report: The report says: “ Of [...]
At our last Detention Forum members' meeting we took time to reflect on the current challenging external environment as seek to develop our mission of ending the use of immigration detention in the UK. We are very conscious [...]