Ministers and party leaders have been condemned by local politicians for a lack of leadership over the plight of lone child refugees during a visit to the sprawling Jungle migrant
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British and French authorities are to meet in Calais’s Jungle migrant camp to discuss how to care for unaccompanied children. Councillors from the Local Government Association (LGA) will visit the
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A controversial accommodation centre for families facing removal from the UK has been hailed as “excellent” and “groundbreaking” in an inspection report. But watchdogs also described Cedars – which is
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New guidelines will allow immigration detainees to be put in solitary confinement for being “stubborn”, a leading human rights campaign group has said. Liberty condemned the “unprecedented” new Home Office
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The Home Office has won its appeal against a landmark ruling allowing four Syrian refugees living in the “Jungle” camp in Calais to come to Britain. An immigration judge ruled
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The head of civil rights group Liberty has accused the Government of deliberately fostering a hostile environment for immigrants which has helped fuel a spike in hate crime after the
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Thousands of lone migrant children are living in squalid conditions or are vulnerable to smuggling gangs after being let down by European countries including the UK, a report has warned.
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Britain has voted to leave the European Union. The weeks and months of highly spirited and at times rancorous political campaigning have shown just how deep the fissures that run
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A peer who fled the Nazis has warned child refugees promised sanctuary in Britain under a scheme announced in May are still risking their lives hiding in lorries because ministers
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The number of unaccompanied children at the Calais camp known as the Jungle has risen by 32% in one month, according to a new census. A total of 132 of
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