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Bail for Immigration Detainees has published their latest Legal Advice Survey. It finds the lowest levels of legal representation in immigration detention in BID's 15 year records - with only [...]

The Detention Forum has long been concerned about the operation of the UK Government’s short-term holding facilities in Northern France as being at risk of being out of sight and [...]

The Home Office has been consulting on proposed changes to Family Returns: Reforming Asylum Support and Enforcing Family Returns, with proposals regarding families with children, adults and care leavers once [...]

We were saddened to learn of the Government's recent deal with the French Government to open a new detention centre in Dunkirk, Northern France. This 140 capacity centre is aimed [...]

This week the Detention Forum was fortunate enough to be invited to attend and speak at the campaign meeting of NoTo Hassockfield. They are members of our Forum, and it [...]

Our friends at the Coalition to Close Campsfield have sent us this important update below - do please help them to spread the word! Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre near Kidlington [...]

The Government’s chief inspector of prisons recently published his findings from the unannounced inspection of Derwentside IRC. We are keen to echo the views of our member No to Hassockfield [...]

At our last Detention Forum members' meeting we took time to reflect on the current challenging external environment as seek to develop our mission of ending the use of immigration [...]

As we approach the end of the year, we are keen to highlight the recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board on the use of force on people in immigration [...]

We are keen to promote the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre organised by our friends at Right [...]

We are keen to highlight the new report from the Jesuit Refugee Service on Accessing legal advice in detention: becoming an impossibility. The report highlights that it is extraordinarily difficult [...]

Our friends at Migrant Voice have recently produced a new newspaper in both hard copy and online formats, and we were delighted to see that they featured the powerful story [...]