Yvette Cooper has signalled she will press ahead with the previous government’s plan to reopen two immigration centres in a bid to achieve the highest rate of removals since Theresa
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The number of child strip searches by police forces across England and Wales appears to be falling but safeguarding failures remain a problem, according to a report from the Children’s
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Emergency plans to avoid prison overcrowding have been activated in the North of England as more rioters are sentenced. Operation Early Dawn, a long-standing plan which allows defendants to be
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An asylum system that works “quickly and effectively” would deter migrant Channel crossings, the head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. Graeme Biggar (pictured) discussed what could help to
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An Afghan asylum seeker who was inside a hotel targeted by rioters said people are “traumatised” by what happened and described feeling “lost” when it comes to what his future
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A “shocking” level of chaos at scandal-hit HMP Wandsworth was the result of sustained decline that happened “in plain view of leaders”, a report by the prisons watchdog has concluded.
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The Government will end the use of the Bibby Stockholm barge for housing migrants off England’s south coast as part of an overhaul of the asylum system, the Home Office
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Greater Manchester Police has apologised and accepted the recommendations of an “explosive” report into the experiences of women and girls arrested and taken into custody by the force. Former victims’
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Conditions at an immigration detention centre have been branded the “worst” in the country by a watchdog who described the “chaos” he discovered there “truly shocking”. Chief inspector of prisons
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A migrant processing centre in Kent will be visited by the Children’s Commissioner over concerns raised about safeguarding children at the site. Dame Rachel de Souza is expected to visit
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