‘Lengthy immigration detention is unnecessary, inhumane and causes harm’.

The Home Office ‘has shown a shockingly cavalier attitude in its approach to immigration detention’ and overseen serious failings in almost every area of the immigration detention process, a new report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.

The report, Immigration Detention, outlines how the Home Office has utterly failed in its responsibility to oversee the safe and humane detention of individuals in the UK, and says that too often it does not follow its own policy and guidance, and that a series of safeguarding and case-working failures have led to people being wrongfully detained, held in immigration when they are vulnerable and unnecessarily detained for too long.