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Home Office rejects cross-party safe consumption rooms call despite major drug report

THE Home Office has again rejected cross-party calls to introduce safe drug consumption rooms – despite a major report recommending the department…

The National (Scotland)

MPs call for safe spaces to be created for illegal drug consumption in UK

If Westminster remains unwilling to support a Glasgow pilot, the power to establish it should be devolved to the Scottish government, MPs said

The Independent UK

Allow drug testing at festivals to cut deaths, MPs urge ministers

Drop ‘abstinence-only approach’ and focus on public health, report by home affairs select committee says

The Guardian - UK

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Drug testing at festivals must expand before summer 2024, committee tells Home Office

The Home Affairs Committee recommends a dedicated licensing scheme for drug checking

Evening Standard

Safe drug consumption facilities should be piloted in the UK, MPs say

If Westminster remains unwilling to support a Glasgow pilot, the power to establish it should be devolved to the Scottish Government, MPs said.

The Independent UK

Government unveils plans to overhaul police disciplinary system

Chief constables, or other senior officers, will have greater powers to root out and sack rogue staff from their forces.

The Independent UK

At last! Suella Braverman hands police chiefs powers to sack rogue cops

Police officers will face automatic dismissal if guilty of gross misconduct, under Home Office changes demanded by forces months ago

The Independent UK

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Bibby Stockholm: ministers accused of playing Russian roulette with asylum seekers’ lives

Charity condemns plan to return people to the barge despite inspection finding failings in its plumbing system

The Guardian - UK

'When you get status the struggle doesn’t end': what it's like to be a new refugee in the UK

When someone applies for asylum in the UK today, they may be waiting months or even years for their application to be decided, thanks to the record-high backlog that the government is failing to tackle.

The Conversation

Six former home secretaries urge Suella Braverman to act on corrupt police officers

Labour and Tory grandees urge government to give police chiefs greater powers to sack rogue cops

The Independent UK

UK border officers dealing with small boats given mental health workshops

Exclusive: spending data shows Home Office hired ‘resilience practitioners’ after what PCS union calls ‘trauma assessments’

The Guardian - UK

UK police given new powers to seize banned ‘zombie-style’ knives and machetes

The maximum sentence for importing, manufacturing, possessing and selling these weapons will be two years

The Independent UK

More ‘zombie-style’ knives to be banned as police given seize and destroy powers

The maximum sentence for importing, manufacturing, possessing and selling these newly proscribed weapons will be two years, the Home Office said.

The Independent UK

Ministers accused of ‘insulting’ drink spiking victims by delaying key report into crime

Exclusive: Labour slams the government over its refusal to publish a key report into spiking

The Independent UK

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Stirling University student BARRED from studying after release from Dungavel

A STIRLING University student who was detained by the Home Office has been released on bail – though he remains barred from continuing his…

The Guardian - UK

Home Office interest in migrant records dates back to Theresa May

A memorandum of understanding published in 2016 required the NHS to hand over non-clinical records

The Guardian - UK

Migrants to get Home Office reference number on NHS England records

‘Discriminatory’ development sparks concern among healthcare union and migrants’ rights groups

The Guardian - UK

Suella Braverman restates wish for UK to leave European court of human rights

Home secretary calls the court ‘politicised’ and refuses to rule out mass tagging of asylum seekers

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Evening Standard

Bibby Stockholm barge is safe amid legal challenge possibility, Suella Braverman says

The Home Secretary also declined to rule out reports that the Home Office is considering fitting asylum seekers with electronic tags

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm barge is safe amid legal challenge possibility, Braverman says

The Home Secretary also declined to rule out reports that the Home Office is considering fitting asylum seekers with electronic tags.

The National (Scotland)

UK Government not ruling out electronic tagging to 'control' migrants

HOME Secretary Suella Braverman has not ruled out a report suggesting that the Home Office is considering fitting asylum seekers with electronic…

The Independent UK

Home Office considers plans to put electronic tags on asylum seekers – report

Officials are reportedly mulling ways to prevent asylum seekers from going underground as detention spaces are limited

The Guardian - UK

Home Office ‘may fit asylum seekers with electronic tags’

Preferred option for handling growing numbers of applicants is to increase number of detention places, but tagging has been mooted as short-term fix

The Independent UK

Home Office considers fitting migrants with electronic tags – report

Officials are reportedly mulling ways to prevent asylum seekers from going underground as detention spaces are limited.

The Independent UK

Children arriving on small boats held in jail alongside adult sex offenders, say campaigners

Unaccompanied minors being ‘destroyed psychologically’, say activists amid controversy over Home Office age assessments

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