Briefings and submissions

AVID regularly responds to policy consultations and requests for evidence from a range of bodies including government and international Human Rights mechanisms. You'll find our submissions below. 

Consultation Responses:

• Response to the second 'Shaw Review': review into the Home Office response into the "Review of Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons" (November 2017)

• Response to Ministry of Justice consultation on Expedited Asylum Appeals Process for Detainees (November 2016)

• Response to Home Office consultation on Draft Short Term Holding Facility Rules  (April 2016) - Contact us for a copy

• Submission to the UN Committee for the Prevention of Torture in advance of its visit to the United Kingdom (February 2016)

• Submission to the Home Office Consultation 'Reforming Support for Failed Asylum Seekers and Other Illegal Migrants' (September 2015) 

• Response to the 'Shaw Review' (Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable people) (May 2015)

• Response to the 'Shaw Review' by the Vulnerable People's Working Group of the Detention Forum (cowritten by AVID and GDWG) (May 2015)

• Response to publication of Parliamentary Inquiry into Immigration Detention (APPG on Refugees and APPG on Migration) (March 2015)

• Written evidence to the Parliamentary Inquiry on Immigration Detention (APPG on Refugees and APPG on Migration) (September 2014)

• Response to Ministry of Justice consultation 'Transforming Legal Aid: delivering a more credible and efficient system'  (June 2013)

• Submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Asylum (April 2013)

• Submission to the UN Committee for the Prevention of Torture in advance of its visit to the United Kingdom (September 2012)

• Response to HMIP consultation on 'Expectations' (April 2012)

• Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants 'The needs and protection concerns of vulnerable groups' (January 2012)

• AVID and BID joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (November 2011)

Briefings:

• AVID briefing for Westminster Hall Debate on Vulnerable People in Detention (March 2017)

• Vulnerable People in Detention Briefing for the Parliamentary Debate on Immigration Detention (September 2015)

• The Detention of Vulnerable People: Human Rights Breaches in the UK Briefing jointly by AVID and GDWG for the Detention Forum (December 2012)

• Parliamentary Briefing: Vulnerable Groups in Detention: Mental Health (June 2011)

• Parliamentary Briefing: Vulnerable Groups in Detention: Mental Health (March 2011) Full briefing