The Home Office is investigating allegations of racist WhatsApp texts sent by immigration staff at a firm paid to escort migrants to detention centres. According to The Sunday Mirror, the
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The Home Office has told asylum seekers staying in hotels it will stop providing them with free access to non-basic toiletries and “over the counter medication”, according to a letter
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“Shocking” racist, sexist and homophobic messages exchanged by police officers have been published by a watchdog that found the highly offensive language was dismissed as “banter”. Details of messages from
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The purpose of reviews of serious child safeguarding cases, at both local and national level, is to identify improvements to be made to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
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Murdered teenager Louise Smith may not have received appropriate support because of Covid-19 restrictions, a review of her care has found. Shane Mays, 30, from Havant, Hampshire, was jailed for
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In the year to June 2021, for every 1,000 women in custody in England and Wales, 3,808 incidents of self-harm were recorded. This represented a shocking increase of 16% on
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A woman gave birth to a stillborn baby in “shocking circumstances” in a prison toilet after a nurse mistook her labour for period pain, a watchdog’s investigation has found. Prisons
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Migrants are still being held in “very poor” conditions after arriving on the Kent coast despite Home Office assurances of “significant improvements”, according to inspectors. Women who said they had
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The military base chosen by the Home Office to process migrants in Kent has been described as an “unworkable and unacceptable” proposal by a Conservative MP. On Tuesday, the Home
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Reforms aiming to protect mental health patients from unsafe restraint have come into force following the death of a 23-year-old man. New guidance has been introduced under “Seni’s law”, in
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