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Time Limit Amendments to Immigration Bill
David Davis MP (Conservative, Haltemprice and Howden) has recently tabled amendments to the Immigration Bill to introduce a time limit for immigration detention. These are the amendments, which came so [...]
New statistics – Covid-19 and immigration
Last week the Home Office released new statistics 'relating to Covid-19 and the immigration system.' They are worth a look to see what has been happening since the outbreak of [...]
New working groups
At the last quarterly meeting of the members of Detention Forum, we discussed again how we can move forward with our thinking on a new theory of change. In our [...]
Our Ways of Working
Introduction This article sets out our ways of working approved by our members at our quarterly meeting in May 2020. Our membership We are committed to keeping the bottom-up approach, [...]
Report on Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention
On Wednesday 29th April 2020, the Government published the report by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration on whether the Adults at Risk in immigration detention is making any [...]
Open letter on Covid-19 to the Home Secretary from Freed Voices
Rt Hon Priti Patel MP Home Secretary Dear Home Secretary, We, Freed Voices, are writing to express our concern regarding the serious risks posed by Covid-19 to those who continue [...]
The importance of grassroots campaigning in working towards ending immigration detention
Change always requires multiple approaches and multiple actors, ideally working together and acknowledging the value of each other’s methods and successes. In the context of working towards the ending of [...]
New: guest blog posts
We are really keen at Detention Forum over the next few months to seek out guest blog posts for our blog to encourage a wider debate to challenge the use [...]
Towards a new theory of change
Over the last decade or so, our theory of change has been really important to us at Detention Forum. In a nut shell, this is a document that we worked [...]
Jonathan Ellis will be our new Project Director
We are very pleased to announce that Jonathan Ellis will be our new Project Director. Jonathan has years of experience as an advocacy campaign director, strategist and teacher and has long [...]
Consultancy advert: Project Director
22 November 2019 The Detention Forum is seeking an expression of interest from consultants to provide services as a new Project Director. The Detention Forum is an advocacy network of [...]
‘In Three Words’ – Unlocking Detention
Can you describe immigration detention in three words? As part of this year's Unlocking Detention (from 11 November to 19 December 2019), we are asking people to take part in [...]