Health services are at “breaking point” as incidents of self-harm have more than doubled at an immigration detention centre which feels “like a prison”, inspectors have warned.
Fights and assaults on staff at Brook House immigration removal centre had increased more than five-fold since the last inspectors’ visit in 2022, rising from 14 to 80 assaults and eight to 50 fights, but inspectors said leaders were not using data effectively to understand the cause of it.
