by Staff Writer | Jul 15, 2024 | Briefing
INSPECTORS on an unannounced visit to Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) near Heathrow found the worst conditions they have seen in immigration detention. Much of the accommodation was decrepit, violence and other unacceptable behaviour such as drug use...
by Staff Writer | Jun 14, 2024 | Briefing
TODAY marks the seventh anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower, a 23 storey tower block in North Kensington, London. The fire broke out on the fourth floor just before 1 am on 14 June 2017, and quickly spread up the exterior of the building. Seventy two people were...
by Staff Writer | Jun 14, 2024 | Briefing
IN the latest Department for Education school census, 54,000 pupils were identified as being a young carer, including 21,000 primary school pupils. This was only the second year for which such data was recorded, and showed an increase on the previous year, when just...
by Staff Writer | Jun 7, 2024 | Briefing
CAMPAIGNERS are urging Churches and faith groups to increase investment in climate solutions through a new global initiative, the Green Investment Declaration, which launched this week. Supported by UK charities Operation Noah and JustMoney Movement, the declaration...
by Staff Writer | May 30, 2024 | Briefing
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ministers who have been listening to detainees in an immigration removal centre, reported their stories as “harrowing”. The Rev Bryan Kerr was part of a delegation which recently visited the facility in a rural location near Strathaven...
