17 September 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Meet the British families who have opened their homes to asylum seekers

source: The Guardian
published: 7 September 2015

For the past 10 years, the Boaz Trust in Manchester has tried to find accommodation for destitute asylum seekers. Until very recently, the Christian charity often struggled to find enough households willing to take these most vulnerable of strangers into their homes.

All that changed last week with the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose tiny body became the symbol of the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe for decades when it washed up on a beach in Turkey.

30 August 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Number of most dangerous prisoners in special units doubles

source: The Guardian
published: 25 August 2015

The number of the most dangerous male prisoners in England being held in a special “jail within a jail” system has doubled over the past decade, inspectors have revealed.

The first thematic inspection report of the system of close supervision centres in high-security prisons since 2006 also found more than half of those held in special conditions are Muslim and about a third are from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups.

9 November 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Control and restraint techniques used on people being removed from UK lawful, says Court of Appeal

source: UK Human Rights Blog
published: 7 November 2014

The Court of Appeal has held that the physical restraint of persons being removed from the UK by aircraft is subject to a sufficient framework of safeguards to fulfil the state’s obligations under Articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.