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Posts Tagged ‘Home Office’

Met Police may face further staffing cuts if Home Office fails to bridge funding gap say bosses

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 12 December 2025 at 10:14
Police car

The Met Police have suggested they could be forced to make staffing and recruitment changes if they don’t receive an expected funding uplift from the Home Office

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‘Treating us all as suspects’ – Doubts over success of Met Police’s Live Facial Recognition technology

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Saturday 16 August 2025 at 09:37
Critical: Green party London Assembly Member and Dalston councillor Cllr Zoë Garbett

Critics have branded the use of LFR, which maps a person’s unique facial features, and matches them against faces on watchlists, as an ‘erosion of civil liberties

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Windrush Day celebrations see fresh calls for justice over Home Office scandal

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 25 June 2025 at 19:06

Hackney’s equalities chief warns of the world ‘regressing’ from past recognition of structural racism

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‘Let us help you’: Windrush campaigners urge people to come forward for free support – even if they don’t want to claim compensation

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 24 January 2022 at 17:28

A group of organisations are offering mental health support as well as free legal advice if needed

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Migrants’ rights groups welcome departure of Home Office staff from Town Hall

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 8 September 2020 at 19:29
Hackney Town Hall

Embedded immigration officer, whose presence was criticised for acting as a deterrent to people seeking council help, deemed surplus to requirements

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Elli Free: Will we ever learn?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 May 2020 at 15:42

The director of Room to Heal, a local charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers, on Windrush, immigration detention, and opportunities for ‘fundamental change’ post-lockdown

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Leader – Clipped wings

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 March 2020 at 08:59

The Home Office could learn from Hackney’s handling of Windrush – now, after a very public snub, we’ll see if it really has the willing

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Town Hall urges Windrush victims to claim for compensation

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 13 May 2019 at 12:27

Residents affected by the government’s ‘hostile environment’ policies can apply now

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Council’s use of embedded Home Office staff criticised as part of ‘hostile environment’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 16 November 2018 at 17:35
Hackney Town Hall

Project 17 and Hackney Green Party urge Town Hall to think again on ‘very intimidating’ policy

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Leader – Complex issue of homeless non-UK nationals

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 April 2017 at 14:38
HC Crest

Accusations of charities colluding with the government have brought the topic to the surface once more, but the waters of opinion remain muddied

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Rough sleepers’ charity denies informing on EU nationals to Home Office

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 March 2017 at 12:56
Homeless man on bench

Thames Reach slams reports as ‘misleading and factually incorrect’ and says it has not helped detain anyone in Hackney

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Hackney mother and disabled son win deportation battle

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 3 February 2012 at 11:49
Kwasi and Abena Ama

Home Office backs down after repeated efforts to force disabled man and his mother out. We couldn’t have done it without Hackney Community Law Centre, says mother

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