The UK should end the indefinite detention of immigrants, the UN refugee agency has urged. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has pledged to look at the issue and plans to review
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UK ministers are being urged to provide “more generous” assistance for Syrian refugees in England after researchers found those who had been resettled in Scotland were better supported and happier.
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Detention of vulnerable women at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre will end in a pilot scheme announced by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. The announcement of the trial to MPs comes
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Legal aid for unaccompanied child migrants has been reinstated following a five-year legal battle between the Government and the Children’s Society. Justice Minister Lucy Frazer confirmed that the scope of
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A father and his three-year-old daughter who were separated for months while he was detained under immigration powers are to receive £50,000 damages from the Home Office. Approving the settlement
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A member of the Windrush Generation forced to pay for cancer treatment is bringing a High Court challenge against a key part of the Government’s “hostile environment” immigration policy. The
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A committee of MPs has demanded “root and branch reform” of the Home Office’s culture, policies and approach to immigration following the Windrush scandal. A report by the House of
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A 10-year-old orphan facing deportation just months after the death of his mother has been granted leave to remain in the UK. Giorgi Kakava has been told he will be
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The Government is being urged to extend a scheme aimed at helping vulnerable refugees to settle in the UK. Citizens UK said the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) had helped
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Immigration officials used powers of detention “unlawfully and inappropriately” to hold members of the so-called Windrush generation even though they were entitled to be in the UK, a parliamentary inquiry
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