Government accused of scrapping pledge to end child detention in prison-style immigration removal centres

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm22nd July 2016

The Independent Children are being sent back to a centre resembling a prison The Government has been accused of quietly ditching its policy of ending child detention in prison-style immigration centres after it announced the closure of new flagship accommodation for families being removed from the UK. On the final day of parliament before summer…

Counter-extremism bill branded confusing by peers and MPs

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm22nd July 2016

The Guardian Cross-party committee says there is no need for a new law, adding that proposals are alarmingly vague and will lead to people being wrongly suspected Armed police at St Pancras station in London after the Brussels airport blasts in March 2016. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA The government’s planned laws for countering extremism and terrorism…