Home Office in the media: 17 October 2017

Today’s Home Office stories of interest include reports on investigations into cannabis factories, and further coverage of the Metropolitan Police no longer investigating some low-level crimes.
Today’s Home Office stories of interest include reports on investigations into cannabis factories, and further coverage of the Metropolitan Police no longer investigating some low-level crimes.
Today’s Home Office stories of interest include reports that the Metropolitan Police will no longer investigate some low-level crimes, and news that the government has agreed to back a move to make assaulting emergency services workers more serious crimes.
Today’s Home Office stories of interest include coverage of a Freedom of Information (FOI) response detailing the number of Vietnamese children who have gone missing from care and who may be at risk of trafficking.
Today’s Home Office-related stories include changes to the immigration policy for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, an individual permanent residency case, and our the future immigration system when we leave the European Union.
Today's Home Office-related coverage includes evidence given at the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the Home Office's capacity to deliver immigration services, a High Court judgment, and calls for GPs to be added to the Shortage Occupation List.
Today (Tuesday October 10), a High Court judgement was handed down in respect of a judicial review, brought by Medical Justice, on aspects of the policy on adults at risk in immigration detention. Please find the Home Office response to the court …
The Home Secretary has urged businesses to do more to prevent modern slavery in supply chains, in a comment piece published today in the Evening Standard.
Today’s Home Office-related stories include coverage of the hearings held by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), a Crown Prosecution Service report into Violence against Women and Girls, and news that a Border Force officer has been arrested. …
Today’s Home Office-related stories include coverage of a rise in hate crimes against mosques, claims of racial profiling by Immigration Enforcement officers, and calls for the government to do more to tackle child grooming gangs.
...is widespread coverage of the findings published yesterday by Wiltshire Police from their investigation into historic child sexual abuse allegations made against the late former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath....