@hollybancroft.bsky.social
Home affairs correspondent at The Independent 📧 [email protected]
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialI've been writing a fair bit recently about AI use in the Home Office and interested in trying to document the impact of this new technology on people - if you have anything to share please do reach out.
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialAn AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests, documents dug out by the @openrightsgroup.org reveal.
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialThe UK's one in, one out deal with France is at an end.
The deal expires tomorrow and efforts to extend the arrangement have fallen flat.
The UK is not processing any more cases, although flights will continue in Oct to remove those already detained.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialThanks to @britishfuture.bsky.social and @futuregovforum.bsky.social for the chance to chair this panel on ‘Can Labour get immigration right?’ at conference.
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialMark Carroll's daughters, Ayisha and Danielle, are fundraising for a gravestone to commemorate him with.
Mark Carroll was killed in a random, unprovoked attack in Camden in 2024.
If you can spare anything, please do consider contributing to their gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-gi...
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialFear, danger and families torn apart: The new route for Afghans seeking safety in UK
Afghan refugees who supported Britain are being forced to split up their families on the MoD's new pathway to settlement.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialRasheed Rahman plunged a knife that he had signed out from his supported living hostel into the back of Mark Carroll, 55, in April 2024. Two months before, Rahman had stabbed Iulian Cavaliuc in a separate attack in east London but was not tracked down by police due to delays in gathering CCTV.
@hollybancroft.bsky.socialA violent teenager who was released on police bail twice – leaving him free to murder a beloved grandfather in a “shocking and cowardly” attack – has been jailed for life.
