New damning report on Harmondsworth Detention Centre
The report on the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre was published by HM Inspector of Prisons yesterday and it was said that inspectors returning to this detention centre found the worst conditions that they have ever found in immigration detention. This key findings of this report are important reading for anyone [...]
Detention Forum conference
We held our first in person conference at Detention Forum in five years last month, and it was so energising to bring our network and partners together. We met at the Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre in London and we had around 50 of our members in attendance. Our meeting [...]
New detention report by JRS UK
The Jesuit Refugee Service UK has recently published a new report, After Brook House: continued abuse in immigration detention, revealing that patterns of mistreatment detailed by the high-profile Independent Inquiry into events at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) are ongoing throughout UK immigration detention centres. After Brook House draws [...]
Media focus on UK short-term holding facilities in France
We were delighted to see the Guardian newspaper recently cover the issue of the UK short-term holding facilities in Northern France and to be quoted in it. It was great to see some profile of this troublesome and neglected area of public policy. We will be discussing as a network [...]
Another alternative pilot
Last week we held an online briefing for our members with the impressive Micro Rainbow about their independent community based alternative to immigration detention. We have talked a lot in the past about the independent project run by Detention Action and the Home Office funded projects run by Action Foundation [...]
Remember that report by Stephen Shaw?
Back in 2014, our Forum played a key role in the energy and work that led to the ground breaking APPG review into immigration detention. This initiative provoked widespread unease by politicians across the House and led to the pressure that would see the important report by Sir Stephen Shaw [...]
UN leaders warn of harmful consequences
This week saw the sad news that the UK Safety of Rwanda Bill followed passed through all of its Parliamentary stages. Over the months we have continued to raise our concerns and our objections to this drastic change in the way that we deal with people coming to this country [...]
Our new campaign!
Judging by our activity on our blog over the past few months, you may have thought that things were quiet with us at Detention Forum? The truth is quite the opposite. There's been loads of work happening amongst our 50+ members as we have developed resources to support our new [...]