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“Poor pay and conditions have been one of the reasons for the bus driver shortage, and the whole sector has welcomed our recent announcement as an important part of stabilising the workforce. “The Government has come to the table by providing an additional $61 million to lift bus driver pay and conditions,” he said.

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He said the Government recognised that improving the conditions of drivers would make it easier to recruit and retain the workforce, allowing frequent and reliable bus services. Transport Minister Michael Wood told the Herald in a statement it was “clear that there are currently challenges recruiting bus drivers in many of our cities around New Zealand, which is impacting the delivery of services”. The act creates a requirement for additional detained accommodation to enable the removal of those with no right to remain in the UK.“We are so grateful to all the drivers – who are the backbone of our city,” the spokesperson said. The Home Office said: “The Illegal Migration Act means people who come to the UK illegally are detained and promptly removed, to their home country or a safe third country.

If the SDO process is undertaken, the council would be a consultee and not a decision maker.” We understand that the Home Office has discussed plans to expand the Manston centre, and would use the special development order process. It said: “The council has not been contacted directly by the Home Office in relation to expansion plans for the Manston site. Thanet district council, the planning authority for Manston, said it was aware of the Home Office’s plans to construct an immigration detention centre on the site. This is an ongoing failure of the Home Office, at a fundamental level, to avoid unnecessary, additional harm and suffering of detained people.”

Immigration detention already poses a serious risk of harm to people’s wellbeing inadequate staffing levels adds to this dangerous environment and risks abuses of human rights.

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The catalyst for this support is a large number of the existing staff at Heathrow not being available for full operational duties.”Įmma Ginn, director of the charity Medical Justice, which supports the health of immigration detainees, said: “The recent Brook House inquiry warned of the dangers of low staffing levels and the detrimental impact such shortages have on detained people’s safety and access to even the basic services. Home Office sources have confirmed that contractors are being bussed from one site to another, as well as the plans for the new detention centre at Manston.Īndy Baxter, of the Prison Officers Association, said: “The POA can confirm that its members from the Manston short-term holding facility have been providing support to colleagues at Heathrow immigration removal centre. While the government publicly confirmed last year that two immigration removal centres it had closed – Haslar in Gosport and Campsfield in Oxfordshire – would be reopened to expand capacity, there has been no government announcement about Manston being used as a site for a new immigration removal centre. It has also been disclosed that the Home Office is planning a new immigration removal centre on the Manston site.