Detention Action
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Human rights charity on the frontline of immigration detention in the UK, providing direct support and campaigning for change.
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In 2025, our dedicated Casework Team gave support and expert advice to hundreds of people trapped in immigration detention, helping them navigate the hostile immigration system and, in many cases, regain their freedom. We couldn't have done this without our amazing supporters.
“Overcrowded, squalid and insanitary,” with outbreaks of diphtheria and scabies — evidence heard at the public inquiry into the horrific detention conditions at Manston in 2022. The Home Office must learn from its lesson and treat migrants with dignity.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
January 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“Overcrowded, squalid and insanitary,” with outbreaks of diphtheria and scabies — evidence heard at the public inquiry into the horrific detention conditions at Manston in 2022. The Home Office must learn from its lesson and treat migrants with dignity.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Immigration detention is not only costly, it is ineffective and harmful. The majority of people being locked away in detention ended up being released back to the community. There is also no evidence that detention deters people from traveling to the UK.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
January 23, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Immigration detention is not only costly, it is ineffective and harmful. The majority of people being locked away in detention ended up being released back to the community. There is also no evidence that detention deters people from traveling to the UK.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
1/4 We are deeply concerned by the reported use of force within detention centres against people seeking asylum who peacefully protested the UK–France deal last week.
We question the necessity of using force against individuals engaging in peaceful protest within the centres.
We question the necessity of using force against individuals engaging in peaceful protest within the centres.
January 22, 2026 at 2:17 PM
1/4 We are deeply concerned by the reported use of force within detention centres against people seeking asylum who peacefully protested the UK–France deal last week.
We question the necessity of using force against individuals engaging in peaceful protest within the centres.
We question the necessity of using force against individuals engaging in peaceful protest within the centres.
Last week, more than 100 people seeking asylum peacefully protested against the UK–France deal within detention centres. Officers reportedly used an alarming level of force, including riot shields, dogs, and tear gas, to forcibly end the protest. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
January 22, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Last week, more than 100 people seeking asylum peacefully protested against the UK–France deal within detention centres. Officers reportedly used an alarming level of force, including riot shields, dogs, and tear gas, to forcibly end the protest. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Do you speak a language other than English?
We’d love you to join us. Become a volunteer interpreter and help provide vital support to people in detention!
9am tomorrow is the application deadline.
Join us to make a real difference!
To apply: detentionaction.org.uk/get-involved...
We’d love you to join us. Become a volunteer interpreter and help provide vital support to people in detention!
9am tomorrow is the application deadline.
Join us to make a real difference!
To apply: detentionaction.org.uk/get-involved...
January 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Do you speak a language other than English?
We’d love you to join us. Become a volunteer interpreter and help provide vital support to people in detention!
9am tomorrow is the application deadline.
Join us to make a real difference!
To apply: detentionaction.org.uk/get-involved...
We’d love you to join us. Become a volunteer interpreter and help provide vital support to people in detention!
9am tomorrow is the application deadline.
Join us to make a real difference!
To apply: detentionaction.org.uk/get-involved...
We need you! We are currently recruiting volunteer interpreters. As a volunteer interpreter, you will support calls with people in detention, helping us provide vital practical and emotional support. To apply, please visit our website: detentionaction.org.uk/get-involved...
January 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
We need you! We are currently recruiting volunteer interpreters. As a volunteer interpreter, you will support calls with people in detention, helping us provide vital practical and emotional support. To apply, please visit our website: detentionaction.org.uk/get-involved...
Eighty people seeking asylum - detained under the UK–France Deal - have launched a report detailing their experiences of fear, humiliation, and psychological distress caused by the Home Office.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
January 7, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Eighty people seeking asylum - detained under the UK–France Deal - have launched a report detailing their experiences of fear, humiliation, and psychological distress caused by the Home Office.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
More evidence of serious failures within the immigration detention system, as the High Court rules that there has been an unlawful failure of the Home Office’s system designed to protect vulnerable people from inhuman and degrading treatment in detention.
December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
More evidence of serious failures within the immigration detention system, as the High Court rules that there has been an unlawful failure of the Home Office’s system designed to protect vulnerable people from inhuman and degrading treatment in detention.
In 2025, our dedicated Casework Team gave support and expert advice to hundreds of people trapped in immigration detention, helping them navigate the hostile immigration system and, in many cases, regain their freedom. We couldn't have done this without our amazing supporters.
December 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
In 2025, our dedicated Casework Team gave support and expert advice to hundreds of people trapped in immigration detention, helping them navigate the hostile immigration system and, in many cases, regain their freedom. We couldn't have done this without our amazing supporters.
Thanks to all our amazing supporters, we achieved our fundraising goal as part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge! We're very grateful to everyone who has backed Detention Action - in any way - this past year, and we'd like to send you all best wishes for the holidays.
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thanks to all our amazing supporters, we achieved our fundraising goal as part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge! We're very grateful to everyone who has backed Detention Action - in any way - this past year, and we'd like to send you all best wishes for the holidays.
We're so close to our target! If you'd like to help us provide support to even more people in detention - including loving parents separated from their children - please give before noon today, if you can, so your donation can be doubled as part of the Big Give.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We're so close to our target! If you'd like to help us provide support to even more people in detention - including loving parents separated from their children - please give before noon today, if you can, so your donation can be doubled as part of the Big Give.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
If you donate to our Christmas Appeal before noon tomorrow, we can double your donation, thanks to the Big Give. Your donation will help us support more loving parents, cruelly separated from their children and loved ones by detention and the threat of deportation:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you donate to our Christmas Appeal before noon tomorrow, we can double your donation, thanks to the Big Give. Your donation will help us support more loving parents, cruelly separated from their children and loved ones by detention and the threat of deportation:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
When a family is torn apart by detention, the fight to stay together can last years and cost up to £50k. Families can be plunged into poverty, with serious harm to children when they lose a parent.
Support our Christmas appeal to Keep Families Together:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Support our Christmas appeal to Keep Families Together:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When a family is torn apart by detention, the fight to stay together can last years and cost up to £50k. Families can be plunged into poverty, with serious harm to children when they lose a parent.
Support our Christmas appeal to Keep Families Together:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Support our Christmas appeal to Keep Families Together:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
1/3 A new report by independent inspectors has raised serious concerns about the immigration detention centres near Gatwick Airport. They report "instances of intimidating, callous or disrespectful behaviour [by staff] both to and about detained men".
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1/3 A new report by independent inspectors has raised serious concerns about the immigration detention centres near Gatwick Airport. They report "instances of intimidating, callous or disrespectful behaviour [by staff] both to and about detained men".
When a loving parent is deported, the Home Office shows little care for the children who are harmed. That's why, this Christmas, we're asking you to support our work to Keep Families Together. And until 9 December, all donations will be doubled!
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When a loving parent is deported, the Home Office shows little care for the children who are harmed. That's why, this Christmas, we're asking you to support our work to Keep Families Together. And until 9 December, all donations will be doubled!
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Samuel told us how his family was thrown into chaos when the Home Office detained him and threatened to deport him. Seven years on, he and his children still live under that threat.
This Christmas, Help us Keep Families Together.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
This Christmas, Help us Keep Families Together.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Samuel told us how his family was thrown into chaos when the Home Office detained him and threatened to deport him. Seven years on, he and his children still live under that threat.
This Christmas, Help us Keep Families Together.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
This Christmas, Help us Keep Families Together.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
“It has affected the children a lot, and how they see themselves.”
Samuel’s family was torn apart when he was detained. Seven years later, they still live under the threat of his deportation. Help us Keep Families Together. Donate to our festive appeal:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Samuel’s family was torn apart when he was detained. Seven years later, they still live under the threat of his deportation. Help us Keep Families Together. Donate to our festive appeal:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“It has affected the children a lot, and how they see themselves.”
Samuel’s family was torn apart when he was detained. Seven years later, they still live under the threat of his deportation. Help us Keep Families Together. Donate to our festive appeal:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Samuel’s family was torn apart when he was detained. Seven years later, they still live under the threat of his deportation. Help us Keep Families Together. Donate to our festive appeal:
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Each year, many children lose a loving parent to forced deportation. This winter, we need your help to Keep Families Together. And if you give to our appeal before 9 December, your donation will be doubled with matched funding, as part of the Big Give.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Each year, many children lose a loving parent to forced deportation. This winter, we need your help to Keep Families Together. And if you give to our appeal before 9 December, your donation will be doubled with matched funding, as part of the Big Give.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
1/4 Local activists report that the first person has been transferred by the Home Office to the reopened Campsfield immigration detention centre, Oxfordshire; the first step in the government's plan to detain at least 45% more people across the UK.
Campsfield House immigration centre to reopen under same management
Mitie, which ran Campsfield House before its closure, wins a six-year contract to manage it again.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
1/4 Local activists report that the first person has been transferred by the Home Office to the reopened Campsfield immigration detention centre, Oxfordshire; the first step in the government's plan to detain at least 45% more people across the UK.
We need your help to keep families together. Every penny given to our Christmas Challenge helps us support parents to return to their families and into their children’s arms.
Give before 9 December and have your donation doubled with match funding! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Give before 9 December and have your donation doubled with match funding! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We need your help to keep families together. Every penny given to our Christmas Challenge helps us support parents to return to their families and into their children’s arms.
Give before 9 December and have your donation doubled with match funding! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Give before 9 December and have your donation doubled with match funding! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
The government detained 22,661 people in the year ending Sep 2025; a 17% leap from the year before. But more than half of those people were ultimately released back to the community. Detention does serious harm and costs tens of millions — so why detain them in the first place?
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The government detained 22,661 people in the year ending Sep 2025; a 17% leap from the year before. But more than half of those people were ultimately released back to the community. Detention does serious harm and costs tens of millions — so why detain them in the first place?
1/3 An official watchdog overseeing the operation of immigration detention centres has released alarming information about the use of force against people held by the Home Office.
Excessive restraint in immigration detention centres ‘deeply concerning’, report finds
Watchdog says force being applied ‘inconsistently, disproportionately, and without adequate justification’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
1/3 An official watchdog overseeing the operation of immigration detention centres has released alarming information about the use of force against people held by the Home Office.
Since August, we’ve witnessed how this government’s UK–France deal puts people in danger. Their new asylum reforms will only push more people — including the most vulnerable — into detention and expose them to serious risks of harm. Our full statement: detentionaction.org.uk/2025/11/21/o...
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Since August, we’ve witnessed how this government’s UK–France deal puts people in danger. Their new asylum reforms will only push more people — including the most vulnerable — into detention and expose them to serious risks of harm. Our full statement: detentionaction.org.uk/2025/11/21/o...
“In their rush to remove people seeking asylum to France, the Home Office is depriving them of the chance to explain their circumstances, causing extreme distress. Even survivors of trafficking face the terrifying prospect of removal by force.”
‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation
In Paris, a group of those returned from UK as part of the immigration scheme say they feel frightened and hopeless
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“In their rush to remove people seeking asylum to France, the Home Office is depriving them of the chance to explain their circumstances, causing extreme distress. Even survivors of trafficking face the terrifying prospect of removal by force.”
It’s been 100 days since the UK-France deal came into force. Every day, our Casework Team sees the serious harm it’s causing to people seeking asylum. Beyond the government's failures, detention harms people — even more so for those fleeing war, torture and persecution.
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It’s been 100 days since the UK-France deal came into force. Every day, our Casework Team sees the serious harm it’s causing to people seeking asylum. Beyond the government's failures, detention harms people — even more so for those fleeing war, torture and persecution.