Information for Detainees

Help for ex-detainees

Dover Detainee Visitors Group says "we understand that life after detention can be difficult. This is why we have started a newly designed Ex-Detainee Project, which aims at supporting released Ex-Detainees to reintegrate into the society and participate in their local community despite the hardships of limited support. We therefore help in particular those Ex-Detainees that are threatened by or experiencing destitution".

The project is a nationwide project and will attempt to help detainees who have been in all removal centres. The link to the project online is HERE

What the project does:

Provides general advice after release from detention
Reimburses travel expenses to reporting centres, doctors, hospitals, dentists, lawyers, etc.
Provides emergency accommodation and emergency food vouchers
Provides clothes or vouchers to buy some clothes
Organises an annual conference on ex-detainee needs and issues to serve as a forum of information exchange and the establishment of best practice guidelines

Call the project on:

0800 9179397 (for detainees, their families and ex-detainees only)
Or 01304 242755

Send the project a text message:
07540723238

Email the project on:

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BID London

020 7247 3590

020 7426 0335

Monday - Thursday 10-12. For detainees in Harmondsworth, Colnbrook, Yarl's Wood, Tinsley House, Morton Hall, Dungavel, and immigration detainees in prisons

BID Oxford

01865 200 357

01865 793 009

Tuesday - Friday 10-4. For detainees in Campsfield House, Brook House, Lindholme

BID South

023 9281 6633

023 9282 1529

Monday - Thursday 10-4. For detainees in Dover and Haslar

Press

07949 404505

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