Today the charity Medical Justice launches the most comprehensive report on the harm done to children held in immigration detention. The 84 page ‘State Sponsored Cruelty‘ report is based on the findings of 141 cases involving children detained between 2004 and April 2010. “We welcome the report from Medical Justice as it highlights again the [...]
In an announcement to the House of Commons on Wednesday 21 July, Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre was to be closed for the purposes of detaining families. However, the Home Office corrected Mr Clegg’s initial statement that Yarl’s Wood as a facility was to close by confirming [...]
New immigration plans will end child detention but we should be wary of substituting one form of state abuse with another. Simon Parker, Comment is Free, The Guardian, Friday 28 May 2010. The announcement in Tuesday’s Queen’s speech that along with a cap on non-EU immigration, the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government no longer intends to [...]
In the early hours of this morning, Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister issued a statement in which as part of a Tory commitment to put a cap on immigration it was agreed to put an end to child detention immigration controls (the latter was a Lib Dem proposal). End Child Detention Now believes that this [...]
Open letter to Gordon Brown Nick Clegg 15/12/09 Dear Gordon, I am writing to urge you to stop the scandal of hundreds of very young children, including toddlers, spending this Christmas locked up behind bars in Immigration Centres in Britain. One of the best ways to judge the moral compass of a nation is how [...]
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