Staff at immigration detention centre wore England flags, report finds

Independent Monitoring Boards’ annual report included an update on the Home Office’s one-in-one-out policy, finding that it had led to children being detained, which is not allowed. Photograph: Home Office/PA

Staff at an immigration detention centre wore England flags pinned to their uniforms while guarding migrants, a report from the prisons and detention watchdog has revealed.

Their use by staff at one of the Home Office’s short-term holding facilities to detain migrants is revealed in the Independent Monitoring Boards’ national annual report, published on Wednesday, which is based on 127 annual reports about different prisons, young offender institutions and immigration detention centres.