A Home Office pilot scheme to place ankle tags on up to 600 migrants on immigration bail to track their location breached UK data protection law, a watchdog has said.
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The Government’s desire to clear a backlog of asylum seeker cases led to “perverse” decisions being made, a report found. In December 2022, Rishi Sunak pledged to “abolish” a 92,000-strong
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Border security at UK airports is neither “effective nor efficient”, the immigration watchdog warned as he described a Home Office “culture of defensiveness” in a series of reports produced before
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Staff working with children and vulnerable adults in asylum accommodation in Northern Ireland have not undergone checks or training, a report has found. An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation for
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An investigation has been launched into what the authorities knew about the large-scale abuse of young detainees which spanned decades at a detention centre. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO)
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Hundreds of complaints were logged about the conduct of Ofsted inspectors in England last year – with a school leaders’ union warning the inspectorate may have “lost the trust of
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The unsafe transfer of mental health patients from hospital care back into the community is putting them at risk of readmission and suicide, the health ombudsman has warned. It also
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A report into “shocking abuse” at an NHS mental health unit where patients were filmed being mistreated has found poor leadership, bosses “disconnected” from reality and practices of suppressing “bad
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Overseas care workers coming to the UK will no longer be allowed to bring dependants under new rules from mid-March aimed at tackling “unsustainable and unfair levels of migration”. The
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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has come under fire for failing to produce timely auditable accounts for the second consecutive year, with concerns raised over a lack of information
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