Our new campaign!
Judging by our activity on our blog over the past few months, you may have thought that things were quiet with us at Detention Forum? The truth is quite the opposite. There's been loads of work happening amongst our 50+ members as we have developed resources to support our new [...]
Human Impact of the Illegal Migration
As we start the New Year, and we are keen to promote our vision of an immigration system without detention, we were keen to highlight the excellent report by the Refugee Council on the human impact of the Illegal Migration Act and the Rwanda Plan. As the government tries to [...]
Four in five people in detention released
To coincide with international migrants’ day, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) is publishing its 2022 national annual report for the immigration detention estate (IDE). It highlights a fact that we have also raised that almost 80% of people held in UK immigration detention centres in 2022 were released into the [...]
Fair Begins Here
This week saw the launch of the new campaign from Together with Refugees: Fair Begins Here and at Detention Forum we are keen to do all that we can to promote it in the months to come. The Fair Begins Here campaign is calling for a fair new plan for refugees [...]
Tragic death of an Albanian man in detention
We were devastated to learn about the tragic death of an Albanian man on Friday at Brook House, the detention centre near Gatwick Airport. Our thoughts are with his family and friends and the wider community affected by this awful development. This news, coming as it does so soon after [...]
National demonstration to Keep Campsfield Closed
We are keen to share news of the inaugural national demonstration to Keep Campsfield Closed, organised by the Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed and Oxford Student Action for Refugees. The protest will take place at the site of the former Campsfield House IRC in Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxfordshire (OX5 1RE) [...]
Brook House Inquiry Report
Yesterday we saw the long awaited publication of the Brook House Inquiry Report, and what a damning indictment of the immigration detention system in the UK it is. Its findings are sobering and it makes a clear argument for change, most notably echoing our long standing calls for a 28 [...]
UNHCR publishes summary of two alternative projects
In addition to publishing their evaluation of the second Home Office Funded community based alternative to detention pilot project, they have also published a helpful summary of the two pilot projects. This summary includes the first pilot, run by Action Foundation, and the second pilot, run by the King's Arms [...]