‘The “#inhumane” treatment of #migrants rounded up in a “futile” operation for the now scrapped #Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from #HomeOffice staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees.'

'Home Office accounts show the department paid out £56.8m in compensation for more than 2,700 wrongful detentions in the five years before the Rwanda raids.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/revealed-inhumane-treatment-of-migrants-uk-failed-rwanda-plan-laid-bare
#ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #ToryLegacy

''Worrying deterioration in #safety’ at #UKImmigration removal centres, warns #ChiefInspectorOfPrisons [for #England & # Wales Prisons in #Scotland are devolved, but IRCs are not...]'
All eight main detention centres in the UK have been found to have the most serious categories of failings'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/worrying-deterioration-in-safety-at-uk-immigration-removal-centres-warns-chief-inspector-of-prisons
#ToryLegacy #ToryInhumanity #Immigration

'#Children missing from #HomeOffice hotels likely to have been #trafficked, report finds

Exclusive: Study sparks new calls for #PublicInquiry into ‘scandal’ of missing #migrant children in #UK
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/17/children-missing-from-home-office-hotels-likely-to-have-been-trafficked-report-finds
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #ToryLegacy

Patients left in pain and to die alone amid #NHSEngland #nurse #shortages, survey finds

Only a third of shifts have enough nurses on duty, the #RoyalCollegeOfNursing says its analysis shows
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/01/patients-left-in-pain-and-to-die-alone-amid-nhs-nurse-shortages-survey-finds
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #IdeologyBeforePeoole #GE2024

Next #UK government faces #payouts to dozens of #RwandaFlightDetainees

Legal actions seek compensation for #AsylumSeekers locked up for weeks without immediate plan for #deportation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/13/next-uk-government-payouts-asylum-seekers-detained-rwanda-deportation
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #GE2024

Vulnerable #children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” while their parents are driven to despair, according to #England’s former top family judge. #SirJamesMunby terms the lack of provision of safe and therapeutic homes “a shocking moral failure”. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/09/locking-vulnerable-children-up-moral-failure-says-england-top-family-judge-james-munby
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

#SuicideRiskChildren refused places on #NHSEngland waiting lists as services overwhelmed

Teachers warn families hitting ‘brick wall’ when trying to get help for children
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/08/suicide-risk-children-refused-places-on-nhs-england-waiting-lists-as-services-overwhelmed
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

'#InfanMortality is rising and births are plummeting. This is the legacy of 14 years of #ToryCruelty

Grim figures show that #children in #poverty are dying needlessly. We desperately need a government that puts them first'

'#NuffieldFoundation reported in 2021 that #Britain’s rate of infant deaths was 30% above the median across #EU countries.'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/07/infant-mortality-births-children-tory-government
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

Rise in #hospital ‘#CorridorCare’ is #NationalEmergency, union warns

#RoyalCollegeOfNursing says overcrowding is forcing practice that puts #patients at serious risk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/03/nhs-patients-treatment-hospital-corridors-royal-college-of-nursing
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #ProfitBeforePeople #NHSEngland #GE2024

#RishiSunak’s #Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained #AsylumSeekers

'...as recently as Tuesday, the #HomeOffice’s lawyers were fighting legal challenges from detained asylum seekers on the basis that flights to Rwanda were “imminent” and “progressing”, despite the government legal department telling the #HighCourt on the same day that there would be no flights before the election.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/rishi-sunaks-rwanda-admission-sparks-legal-action-from-detained-asylum-seekers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryLies #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

#JamesCleverly[sic] suggests #AsylumSeekers are lying about being #suicidal

#HumanRights #charities condemn #HomeSecretary’s comments about #MDPWethersfield and say the site is ‘acutely harmful’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/01/james-cleverly-suggests-asylum-seekers-are-lying-about-being-suicidal
#ToryPoluciesInAction #refugees #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

'Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from #UnpaidCarers over #BenefitInfringements that occurred largely as a result of #GovernmentFailures'

'...a successions of ministers have failed to fix the problem, leaving tens of thousands of unpaid carers – who save the UK £160bn a year and help prop up #NHS and #SocialCare services – in financial hardship while they repay the debt'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

#HomeOffice faces legal challenge over risk of #LoneChildren being sent to #Rwanda

Charity says children could be #deported as adults before age can be formally determined
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/12/home-office-legal-challenge-lone-children-rwanda
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

'‘Alarming’ number of #LoneChildren held in #UK-run facilities in #France

Charities say #FoI disclosure that 369 such children were held over 21-month period is ‘hugely concerning’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/alarming-number-of-lone-children-held-in-uk-run-facilities-in-france
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #Asylum #ToryInhumanity

'‘They hear a #BangAtTheDoor and it’s the #HomeOffice’: threat of being ‘#disappeared’ haunts #AsylumSeekers amid #Rwanda crackdown

The Home Office last week launched a nationwide operation to round up asylum seekers, leaving many fearful and confused

#Immigration #asylum https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/04/lots-of-fear-how-the-rwanda-deportation-crackdown-led-to-panic-and-protests

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

''Cuts will result in #PatientDeaths’: #hospitals shed medical staff after being told to balance the books

As more #NHS trusts in #England report budget deficits health leaders warn that #WaitingLists will rise
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/05/cuts-will-result-in-patient-deaths-hospitals-shed-medical-staff-after-being-told-to-balance-the-books
#ToryPoliciesInAction #NHSEngland #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #ProfitBeforePeople

Poorer people dying increasingly younger than richer people as 'dismal' #LifeExpectancy gap grows, report finds

"#Britain is a #poor, #sick country, getting sicker, with a few rich and healthy people," says a professor - as a study revealed that #inequality in life expectancy is growing across #England
https://news.sky.com/story/poorer-people-dying-increasingly-younger-than-richer-people-as-dismal-life-expectancy-gap-grows-report-finds-13126243
#ToryPoliciesInAction #PublicHealth #Austerity #ToryInhumanity

#VulnerableTeenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by #councils in #England

Campaigners say cash-strapped #LocalAuthorities are placing young people in budget accommodation, making them targets for #grooming by criminal gangs
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/28/vulnerable-teenagers-dumped-and-abandoned-in-hotels-by-councils-in-england
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingPublicServices #UnderfundingLocalCouncils #ToryInhumanity

‘I would not be alive’: anger at #Sunak plan to strip #GPs of #sicknote powers

#Doctors’ ability to sign people off work is crucial, say readers, especially for those with #MentalHealth problems
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/anger-rishi-sunak-plan-strip-gp-doctors-sicknote-powers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

Rude, patronising and out of his depth, Minister Mikey ticks all the boxes

#Michae Tomlinson’s efforts to defend #RwandaBill show how well suited he is to be part of the new #moronocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/23/rude-patronising-and-out-of-his-depth-minister-michael-tomlinson-ticks-all-the-boxes
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #Asylum #ToryInhumanity