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APPG report on quasi-detention

At our recent members' meeting we heard from Elspeth MacDonald from Medical Justice, who had played a key role in the report from the APPG on detention into the use [...]

By |April 25th, 2022|Comments Off on APPG report on quasi-detention

Cruel asylum policy is costing us more than money

Not only is the government going to spend £2.7bn on implementing the dreadful nationality and borders bill (Refugee group warns of ‘astonishing’ cost of new Home Office policies, 14 February), [...]

By |February 24th, 2022|Comments Off on Cruel asylum policy is costing us more than money

Nationality and Borders Bill

As a network of now 50 independent organisations, we continue to be highly concerned about the future impact of the Nationality and Borders Bill as it works its way through [...]

By |February 4th, 2022|Comments Off on Nationality and Borders Bill

The UK’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Reality

By Freya Wainstein, René Cassin intern, November 2021 (This blog can also be accessed as a PDF document ) When in 2012, then-Home Secretary Theresa May announced she wanted “to create [...]

By |December 3rd, 2021|Comments Off on The UK’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Reality

Afghanistan

Alongside so many people in the country and across the world, we are appalled at the human tragedy which is rapidly unfolding in Afghanistan. As a result of the great [...]

By |August 28th, 2021|Comments Off on Afghanistan

APPG inquiry into ‘quasi detention’

We are delighted to see that the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention has launched an inquiry into the UK Government’s use of large-scale institutional sites, such as [...]

By |May 12th, 2021|Comments Off on APPG inquiry into ‘quasi detention’

Use of former army barracks

At our members' meeting last month, we heard from two of our members, Kent Refugee Help and Samphire, about the recent use of army barracks in Kent to accommodate people [...]

By |January 26th, 2021|Comments Off on Use of former army barracks

Proposed new detention centre

We were very disappointed, when we were alerted by one of our members recently, about a proposed new detention centre in the North East. The Northern Echo reported that Government plans [...]

By |January 18th, 2021|Comments Off on Proposed new detention centre

New members

Over the last few months we have been having a series of conversations with organisations which are interested in our work and wanted to explore membership of our Forum. And [...]

By |December 14th, 2020|Comments Off on New members

Time Limit – Immigration Bill update

Yesterday in the House of Commons the time limit amendment was defeated by 64 votes (328 to 264). We knew that success looked unlikely, but the government majority was reduced, [...]

By |October 21st, 2020|Comments Off on Time Limit – Immigration Bill update
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