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Time Limit – the campaign continues
We were really disappointed to see that the amendments tabled by David Davis MP, despite attracting wide cross-party support, were defeated at Report stage of the Immigration Bill last week [...]
Time Limit – Immigration Bill update
David Davis MP has re-tabled his amendments to the Immigration Bill on detention in readiness for Report stage, which may be as early as next week. It is so great [...]
Detention in Scotland
The current Covid-19 crisis has prompted a lot of reflection among organisations like SDV that support and advocate for people affected by immigration detention. Ali McGinley in an earlier blog [...]
Immigration detention is an LGBTQI+ issue: The LGBTQI+ community must stand with those fleeing oppression
June is Pride month. Pride was and still is a protest, but this can sometimes be forgotten in countries like the UK where LGBTQI+ rights have advanced significantly. For many [...]
Recruiting new Detention Forum volunteers
At Detention Forum, we have a dynamic and committed team of volunteers, who help us to engage with our 12,000+ followers on Twitter and many, many more people. The current [...]
Time limit – Immigration Bill update
The cross-party group of MPs promoting the time limit amendments to the Immigration Bill are keen to ensure proper debate of these amendments at Report stage. So, we understand that [...]
An End to Immigration Detention?
Over the last two members’ meetings at Detention Forum, we have been having a discussion about our ultimate goal in the context of our new theory of change. Some members [...]
“Visiting” detention during COVID 19: a glimpse into the future?
It is an understatement to say that the crisis we find ourselves in has changed everything. We’ve all had to adapt to lockdown conditions while trying to make sense of [...]
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, [...]