Day: 1 June 2012

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Immigration Detention Reaches All Time High

(All figures/text from UKBA Immigration Statistics Q1/2012)  Thanks to National Coalition Against Deportations Committee: 
There were 3,034 people, 91% of capacity, in immigration detention on 31 March 2012, the highest recorded since publication of data began in 2001, and 14% more than on 31 March 2011.
[Lindholme IRC is no longer has reverted to a HMP Cat D & C) Continue reading “Immigration Detention Reaches All Time High”
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Refugee Council: continued detention of children

Refugee Council’s Not a minor offence documents continued detention of children two years after government promises to stop

The charity’s report, Not a minor Offence, focuses on children they are working with who have arrived in the UK on their own, but who are not believed to be the age they say they are by social workers or immigration officials. They are then wrongly treated as adults in the asylum system, meaning they face being detained with other adults, and being removed to their own country, in breach of child protection laws.Read the article here or download the report directly here. Continue reading “Refugee Council: continued detention of children”