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20 July 2016 After the Cabinet reshuffle, we now have a new Home Secretary (Amber Rudd) and a new Immigration Minister (Robert Goodwill). It is important that the new Minister is made aware, while he is still new [...]
Social media volunteers needed! 2 July 2016 We are looking for two to three volunteers who can help us increase our social media presence by; making sure our Twitter account is always active publishing regularly small pieces of detention-related [...]
12 May 2016 The last Immigration Bill debate took place on 10 May 2016, during which Lord Ramsbotham, Baroness Hamwee and Baroness Lister made impassioned speeches in their attempts to safeguard rights and dignity of people trapped in [...]
12 May 2016 The Immigration Act, scheduled to receive Royal Assent in the coming days, will introduce automatic judicial oversight on the UK’s use of immigration detention for the first time and a 72-hour time limit on the [...]
4th May 2016 UPDATE 10 May 2016 The parliamentary "ping-pong" process is in full swing and the Immigration Bill returns to the Lords today at 3pm, after it was debated in the Commons last night. You can read [...]
Last night (15 March), the House of Lords voted in favour of an amendment to the Immigration Bill proposed by Lord Ramsbotham, Lord Rosser, Baroness Hamwee and Lord Roberts of Llandudno, that addressed the lack of judicial oversight [...]
Stephen Shaw’s Equanimity - Evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on the Shaw Review and Government Response. Stephen Shaw gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 9th February 2016 regarding his ‘Review into the Welfare [...]
The latest report by the Prison Watchdog published today (1 March 2016) reveals that the UK had let its largest immigration detention centre, Harmondsworth, deteriorate to an “unacceptable” level, with some parts “among the worst in the detention [...]
Social media volunteers needed! 19 February 2016 We are looking for two to three volunteers who can help us increase our social media presence by; making sure our Twitter account is always active publishing regularly small pieces of [...]
17 February 2016 The Detention Forum is saddened to hear about a death in Colnbrook Detention Centre, near Heathrow Airport. We understand that the exact circumstances of the death remain unconfirmed. Our thoughts are with his friends [...]