Home secretary to recruit 100 specialists to target people-smuggling gangs
21 August 24
Home secretary Yvette Cooper announces plans to recruit 100 investigators to target people-smuggling gangs, and other measures such as more raids on employers hiring undocumented staff and higher charter deportation rates for refused asylum seekers, with 300 caseworkers reassigned to removals.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
Original calendar

People sleeping rough
19 August 24
: Statistics reveal that the number of rough sleepers in London has more than tripled since 2008/09 to nearly 12,000 in 2023/24, and that the proportion of rough sleepers who are white has fallen from 71 percent in 2011 to 43 percent, with Black people making up a quarter of rough sleepers.
Source: Trust for London
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
Original calendar

Number of UK asylum seekers who died in Home Office care doubles in a year
19 August 24
: Data shared with the Guardian reveals that 28 people died in Home Office accommodation in the first half of 2024—double the number in the same period of 2023—and that suicides in Home Office accommodation have doubled since 2020.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK, Ireland
Original calendar

Glasgow University: Strategy to help refugees settle launched
19 August 24
: The New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy Delivery Plan 2024-26, developed jointly by the Scottish government, local authorities (COSLA) and the Scottish Refugee Council to help refugees and asylum seekers understand their rights, is launched at Glasgow University.
Source: National
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK, Scotland
Original calendar

Prison crowding emergency measures a ‘sticking plaster’, Starmer told
19 August 24
: As a result of the jailing of around 300 rioters, the government implements Operation Early Dawn, which amongst other things prevents inmates from being taken from police cells to courts unless a prison place is available.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
Original calendar

Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show
19 August 24
: A Children’s Commissioner report finds that Black children are four times more likely than their white peers to be strip-searched, with 90 percent of all searches being made for drugs and under-15s most commonly subjected to the procedure. In the year to June 2023, over half of all strip searches were conducted without an appropriate adult present.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
Original calendar

Comment: Musk’s tolerance of racism on X fuelled UK riots
19 August 24
: Brendan O’Rourke of Lincolnshire is jailed for three years for stirring up hatred in online posts, including statements like ‘British people protecting mosques tonight will be deported with Muslims… traitors to your own’. He also described Elon Musk as a hero for telling people ‘what’s going on’.
Source: Eastern Eye
Category: RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT
Country: UK
Original calendar

17 year-old arrested after racially-motivated hate crime in South Belfast
19 August 24
: A 17-year-old youth is arrested for disorderly behaviour and common assault in connection with assaults on ‘ethnic minority community’ members in South Belfast. Police describe the attack as a hate crime.
Source: Belfast Media
Category: RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT
Country: Ireland
Original calendar

Mr.AG: The Mixed Race Finnish Neo-Nazi Behind the UK’s Race Riots
19 August 24
An investigation by anti-fascist researchers reveals that neo-Nazi Charles-Emmanuel Mikko Rasanen from Espoo, southern Finland, was behind arson threats to English immigration-related services. Rasanen is linked to Patriotic Alternative.
Source: Red Flare
Category: ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
Country: Finland
Original calendar

Sixfold rise in foreign care workers in UK complaining of exploitation
19 August 24
: Data from the Royal College of Nursing reveals that complaints by migrant care workers of being trapped in exploitative contracts have risen sixfold in the past three years, with 134 reports of employers demanding large sums from workers seeking to leave compared with 22 three years ago.
Source: Guardian
Category: EMPLOYMENT | EXPLOITATION | INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Country: UK
Original calendar

4 in 10 asylum seekers in RAF Wethersfield have suicidal thoughts, doctors say
18 August 24
: Three-quarters of asylum seekers stuck at the ‘remote and prison-like’ Wethersfield camp are in ‘severe psychological distress’, with 4 in 10 having had suicidal thoughts, according to doctors from Médecins sans Frontières and Doctors of the World.
Source: inews
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Scotland
Original calendar

Disciplinary hearing date for Child Q strip-search officers still to be set
18 August 24
: A date for the gross misconduct hearings of three Met police officers involved in the December 2020 strip-search of Child Q is yet to be set and may not be heard until 2025.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
Original calendar

Three-quarters of Muslims worried about their safety after far-right riots, poll says
18 August 24
: A poll by the Muslim Women’s Network finds that 75 per cent of members surveyed are worried about their safety—a rise of almost 60 per cent since the far-right riots—with nearly one in five experiencing hostility since the Southport stabbings.
Source: Sky News
Category: RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT
Country: UK
Original calendar

At least two dozen separate racially-motivated hate crimes logged over the last six weeks
18 August 24
: The PSNI reports over two dozen separate race hate crimes in the past six weeks, on top of the large-scale street violence, while the Northern Ireland Housing Executive says that it has received reports of 22 hate crimes targeting tenants and staff in the first week of August.
Source: Irish Times
Category: RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT
Country: Ireland
Original calendar

No reports of disorder in Bournemouth – police
18 August 24
: The day after anti-racists outnumber the far-right in Dover, an anti-immigration ‘Enough is Enough’ rally is staged in Bournemouth, with counter-protesters once again outnumbering the far Right.
Source: BBC
Category: ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
Country: UK
Original calendar