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At our recent members' meeting, we discussed our three key priorities for our engagement with the new Government and Parliament. They are as follows: Keep Haslar (in Hampshire) and Campsfield [...]

The Detention Forum is happy to be joining our friends at Rene Cassin and Rainbow Migration at an online event next week promoting the compassionate alternative to immigration detention - [...]

Following on from the Brook House Inquiry, we were saddened to see the recent publication of another independent report this time showing that since then safety has got worse for [...]

The Detention Forum was proud to add its name to the recent joint letter co-ordinated by AVID expressing our opposition to the proposed re-opening of the detention centres at Haslar [...]

In the last Parliament, we had become sadly quite used to the last Government's response to any questions about the Home Office funded community-based alternatives to detention pilot projects - [...]

We were interested to read the media story yesterday focussing on HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' recent reports into Detention Centres. Following on from his recent report on Harmondsworth, all [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]