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Friendship
and Support in
Yarl's Wood & Beyond
and Support in
Yarl's Wood & Beyond
Beyond Detention (formerly Yarl’s Wood Befrienders) provides emotional and practical support to people detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and post-detention, in the community.
Beyond Detention (formerly Yarl’s Wood Befrienders) aims to provide emotional and practical support to people detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and in the community, post-detention.
Beyond Detention (formerly Yarl’s Wood Befrienders) provides emotional and practical support to people detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and post-detention, in the community.
Immigration detention
Immigration detention is used by governments as part of their administrative process when deciding a person’s migration status.
Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre is one of 7 immigration removal centres in the UK. Despite Home Office insistence that these centres are not prisons, they look and feel like prisons, people feel criminalised and are deprived of their liberty. We are the only country in Europe to detain indefinitely.
Under international law, immigration detention is only meant to be used as a last resort, after all other alternatives have been exhausted. And yet we regularly see people who are arbitrarily detained in Yarl’s Wood, sometimes on multiple occasions. Around 60 per cent of people are released back into the community, with no further clarity on their migration status and having cost the tax payer £99 for every day they have spent there.
Indefinite detention has a well-documented, lifelong impact on physical and mental health. Rates of self-harm and suicide attempts are high. Vulnerable people, including survivors of torture, trafficking and abuse, are often detained, against the Home Office’s own guidance.
Beyond Detention calls for an end to the inhumane practice of indefinite immigration detention.
Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre is one of 7 immigration removal centres in the UK. Despite Home Office insistence that these centres are not prisons, they look and feel like prisons, people feel criminalised and are deprived of their liberty. We are the only country in Europe to detain indefinitely.
Under international law, immigration detention is only meant to be used as a last resort, after all other alternatives have been exhausted. And yet we regularly see people who are arbitrarily detained in Yarl’s Wood, sometimes on multiple occasions. Around 60 per cent of people are released back into the community, with no further clarity on their migration status and having cost the tax payer £99 for every day they have spent there.
Indefinite detention has a well-documented, lifelong impact on physical and mental health. Rates of self-harm and suicide attempts are high. Vulnerable people, including survivors of torture, trafficking and abuse, are often detained, against the Home Office’s own guidance.
Beyond Detention calls for an end to the inhumane practice of indefinite immigration detention.
Post-detention, we offer phone befriending, online courses and referrals to specialist organisations.
Friendship
and Support in
Yarl's Wood & Beyond
and Support in
Yarl's Wood & Beyond
Beyond Detention (formerly Yarl’s Wood Befrienders) aims to provide emotional and practical support to people detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and in the community, post-detention.
Beyond Detention (formerly Yarl’s Wood Befrienders) aims to provide emotional and practical support to people detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and in the community, post-detention.
Immigration Detention
Immigration detention is used by governments as part of their administrative process when deciding a person’s migration status.
Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre is one of 7 immigration removal centres in the UK. Despite Home Office insistence that these centres are not prisons, they look and feel like prisons, people feel criminalised and are deprived of their liberty. We are the only country in Europe to detain indefinitely.
Under international law, immigration detention is only meant to be used as a last resort, after all other alternatives have been exhausted. And yet we regularly see people who are arbitrarily detained in Yarl’s Wood, sometimes on multiple occasions. Around 60 per cent of people are released back into the community, with no further clarity on their migration status and having cost the tax payer £99 for every day they have spent there.
Indefinite detention has a well-documented, lifelong impact on physical and mental health. Rates of self-harm and suicide attempts are high. Vulnerable people, including survivors of torture, trafficking and abuse, are often detained, against the Home Office’s own guidance.
Beyond Detention calls for an end to the inhumane practice of indefinite immigration detention.
Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre is one of 7 immigration removal centres in the UK. Despite Home Office insistence that these centres are not prisons, they look and feel like prisons, people feel criminalised and are deprived of their liberty. We are the only country in Europe to detain indefinitely.
Under international law, immigration detention is only meant to be used as a last resort, after all other alternatives have been exhausted. And yet we regularly see people who are arbitrarily detained in Yarl’s Wood, sometimes on multiple occasions. Around 60 per cent of people are released back into the community, with no further clarity on their migration status and having cost the tax payer £99 for every day they have spent there.
Indefinite detention has a well-documented, lifelong impact on physical and mental health. Rates of self-harm and suicide attempts are high. Vulnerable people, including survivors of torture, trafficking and abuse, are often detained, against the Home Office’s own guidance.
Beyond Detention calls for an end to the inhumane practice of indefinite immigration detention.
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Our vision, mission and values
Our vision is a time when people who experience immigration detention in the UK have their rights respected. Our mission is to through emotional and practical support, we empower, restore dignity to and improve the wellbeing of people in immigration detention and after their release.
Our values are that
•we are compassionate, empowering and inclusive
•we act with integrity and kindness
•we are respectful and non-judgmental
Our values are that
•we are compassionate, empowering and inclusive
•we act with integrity and kindness
•we are respectful and non-judgmental
Our vision, mission and values
Our vision is a time when people who experience immigration detention in the UK have their rights respected. Our mission is to through emotional and practical support, we empower, restore dignity to and improve the wellbeing of people in immigration detention and after their release.
Our values are that
•we are compassionate, empowering and inclusive
•we act with integrity and kindness
•we are respectful and non-judgmental
Our values are that
•we are compassionate, empowering and inclusive
•we act with integrity and kindness
•we are respectful and non-judgmental
Get Involved
We could not do the work we do without our team of dedicated volunteers. Visits can be a lifeline for people in detention.
There are many ways to support our work to counter the impact of detention. Would you like to volunteer? Raise awareness? Help us financially?
“I feel hugely privileged to be associated with the befrienders. You are all so kind and wonderful.”
Resources
We work with a range of organisations that aim to counter the hostile immigration environment. We can put you in touch with many sources of help, including partners that provide support in other detention centres.
“Even a strong woman needs a shoulder to lean on, someone who’ll just listen as tears roll down to her face, and remind her that no matter how far she’s fallen, she’ll get up, stronger and wiser than before”
Funding
We can only do what we do because of the generosity of our funders and people like you: people who care that women and men are being detained indefinitely in Yarl’s Wood IRC. A heartfelt thank you to our funders of the past three years:
Our Story
Since 2001, when Yarl’s Wood IRC first opened, we have been offering hope to people in detention through friendship and practical support.
