BID Latest

Sign up to OutCry! - BID and The Children's Society's campaign to end immigration detention of children HERE

5/01/2010 Read BID's Annual Report for 2009 HERE

21/12/2009 BID has published three new information bulletins for detainees on: applying for Section 4 accommodation; accessing legal aid for bail applications; and Home Office policy on returns to Zimbabwe, Somalian and Sudan HERE

18/12/2009 HM Inspectorate of Prisons finds Tinsley House 'unnaceptable' - BID and The Children's Society comment READ

10/12/09 BID and The Children's Society comment on Royal Colleges' statement on children and immigration detention READ

29/11/09 BID and The Children's Society comment on Home Affairs Commitee inquiry into children in detention HERE

11/11/09 New BID information bulletin on bail applications for families in immigration detention HERE

About BID

Bail for Immigration Detainees is an independent charity that exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. We work with asylum seekers and migrants, in removal centres and prisons, to secure their release from detention.

BID:

• Makes free applications for release from immigration detention for asylum seekers and migrants
• Publishes a Notebook on Bail which provides information to detainees to empower them to make their own applications for release
• Encourages legal representatives to make bail applications for their clients, by way of training and the 'Best Practice Guide to Challenging Immigration Detention'
• Carries out research and policy work to push for an end to the use of arbitrary immigration detention

BID is a registered charity set up in 1998, based in London, Oxford and Portsmouth. BID has eight paid staff and a large number of volunteers.

For facts and figures about detention in the UK look HERE. (updated May 2008)

All documents on the BID website are available to download as PDF files unless otherwise stated.
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