At least 250 people who were detained at Manston asylum centre during a period when it was dangerously overcrowded and grappling with outbreaks of infectious diseases are suing the government for unlawful detention and other breaches of their rights. They include a woman who had a miscarriage, a child whose age was recorded as five […]
Inspectors have raised serious concerns about the care provided to child asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats, including babies who have had their fingerprints scanned and lone children left to sleep on mats on the floor. A report published today by HM Inspectorate of Prisons on short-term holding facilities in Kent, including Manston, Western Jet […]
The Home Office has revealed it does not routinely inform family members when asylum seekers die in its care and does not want to supply details of these deaths publicly in case it upsets them and “endangers their mental health”. The disclosure comes at a time when there have been 176 deaths from all causes since 2020 […]
People are on occasion being detained for too long, overnight, in holding rooms with nowhere to sleep and no privacy. Delays in transfers and poor access to translation services also cause frustration, says the London short term holding facilities (STHF) IMB in their 2022-23 annual report: Delays in processing cases due to insufficient numbers of […]