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Time Limit Amendments to Immigration Bill

David Davis MP (Conservative, Haltemprice and Howden) has recently tabled amendments to the Immigration Bill to introduce a time limit for immigration detention. These are the amendments, which came so close to succeeding in the last Parliament. His [...]

2020-06-01T13:43:05+00:00June 1st, 2020|

New statistics – Covid-19 and immigration

Last week the Home Office released new statistics 'relating to Covid-19 and the immigration system.' They are worth a look to see what has been happening since the outbreak of the pandemic in the UK. You'll see that [...]

2020-06-01T09:41:55+00:00June 1st, 2020|

New working groups

At the last quarterly meeting of the members of Detention Forum, we discussed again how we can move forward with our thinking on a new theory of change. In our blog post of 9th April, we set out [...]

2020-05-27T10:58:35+00:00May 27th, 2020|

Our Ways of Working

Introduction This article sets out our ways of working approved by our members at our quarterly meeting in May 2020. Our membership We are committed to keeping the bottom-up approach, which fosters collaboration within Detention Forum. This means [...]

2020-05-26T08:33:56+00:00May 26th, 2020|

Report on Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention

On Wednesday 29th April 2020, the Government published the report by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration on whether the Adults at Risk in immigration detention is making any difference. And they also published their response to [...]

2020-05-06T09:31:50+00:00May 6th, 2020|

New: guest blog posts

We are really keen at Detention Forum over the next few months to seek out guest blog posts for our blog to encourage a wider debate to challenge the use of immigration detention in the UK. We will [...]

2020-04-21T16:49:16+00:00April 21st, 2020|

Towards a new theory of change

Over the last decade or so, our theory of change has been really important to us at Detention Forum. In a nut shell, this is a document that we worked on together, which sets out how we thought [...]

2020-04-09T08:48:15+00:00April 9th, 2020|
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