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Please note all tickets have now been booked. If you want to be on the waiting list, please register via Eventbrite link below (10 Feb 2015). The Detention Forum invites you to an evening of thought-provoking 'salon' event. [...]
Update - Please note that the planning meeting has been deferred to 19 February 2015. This means that we still have time to submit objections to the planning committee to oppose the plan to expand Campsfield detention centre. [...]
12 December 2014 The Detention Forum would like to invite like-minded groups and organisations who want to campaign together for a time limit on immigration detention to our national strategy day on 20 February 2015. The Strategy Day [...]
The Detention Forum, together with many of our members, will be attending the Sanctuary Summit on 15 November 2014. We are very pleased to know that one of the 8 key principles of the summint is 'an end [...]
Oxford dons take Mr Cameron to task over immigration detention at nearby Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre. On Saturday 15th November 2014, the distinguished barrister and Principal of Mansfield College, Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography [...]
10 November 2014 As the Home Office plans to more than double the capacity of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire, the Detention Forum is calling for a moratorium on the detention expansion. We call on others [...]
29 September 2014 (We asked our friend, Detention Forum Scotland, to tell us their hope for the detention inquiry in light of the 'NO' vote for the Scottish Referendum.) Many organisations working within the field of migration, and [...]
One of the most exciting aspects of the Detention Forum is an opportunity to work with many groups and organisations who are not traditional "detention" organisations. We believe that a wide variety of organisations that come together at [...]
Are you in detention now? Or were you in detention? The parliamentary panel wants to hear from you so that they understand what it is like to be detained and think what needs to change. The Detention Forum [...]
A guide for groups for taking part in the Detention Inquiry The Detention Forum is encouraging its members and others to make submissions to the detention inquiry and will try to engage parliamentarians and others during the inquiry. [...]