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About Clare Sambrook

Clare Sambrook, novelist, journalist, pro-bono co-ordinator of End Child Detention Now, won the 2010 Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism.

Articles by Clare Sambrook

Tuesday 14th February

Respect and suicide prevention at the UK Border Agency

Clare Sambrook, 14 February 2012
The Home Office claims all immigration custody officers now carry anti-ligature knives — after years of urging by HM Inspector of Prisons
Friday 27th January

The truth about health “reform”: it's the demolition of the NHS

Clare Sambrook, 27 January 2012
Faith groups and charities must join the medical profession in strong, relentless and effective opposition to the government's wrecking of the NHS.
Tuesday 17th January

A child, a bleeding anus, interrogation by the UK Border Agency

Clare Sambrook, 17 January 2012
Landing in Dover, a new report from the Children’s Commissioner for England
Thursday 7th July

“Duty of care” vs “earnings per share”: private contractors in the UK immigration removals business

Clare Sambrook, 7 July 2011
Private contractors are “out of control” and Amnesty International calls for a complete overhaul of UK immigration removals
Wednesday 6th July

Frisk the 5-year-old: the UK Government’s new compassionate approach to child detention

Clare Sambrook, 6 July 2011
Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at Heathrow Airport. This is despite the British government's claims to have ended child detention for immigration purposes
Friday 24th June

Why Britain’s refugees and asylum seekers have little to cheer about: a reply to Tim Finch

Clare Sambrook, 24 June 2011
A reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of National Refugee Week
Wednesday 22nd June

PFI: transferring billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers

Clare Sambrook, 22 June 2011
The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now we’re nicely asking for a little bit of our money back
Wednesday 8th June

Duty of Care: beyond the case of Mr Ward, cooked to death by gigantic outsourcer G4S

Clare Sambrook, 8 June 2011
The horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues of privatisation.
Wednesday 27th April

The Royal Wedding Reality Check

Niki Seth-Smith, Clare Sambrook, Oliver Huitson, YouGov, and GarethYoung, 27 April 2011
The Royal Wedding Reality Check invites you to express your genuine opinions on the event, whether you're a republican, a monarchist, or would never define yourself by either term
Friday 1st April

Oranges and Sunshine: children's charity Barnardo's must learn from past mistakes

Clare Sambrook, 1 April 2011
The film 'Oranges and Sunshine' tells of the thousands of British children forced into migration to the Commonwealth in the 1880s. Barnardo's had a role in this practice - but has it learned from past mistakes? Today, the children's charity faces accusations of collusion with the government over child detention
Monday 28th March

Voices from the military abyss – An Introduction to The Skinback Fusiliers.

Clare Sambrook, Rosemary Bechler, and Niki Seth-Smith, 28 March 2011
openDemocracy and Our Kingdom are proud to serialiseThe Skinback Fusiliers, a fast, funny and deeply disturbing novel about life in the British army today seen through the eyes of three young men.
Thursday 3rd February

A child prisoner, a Santa suit and a Border Agency out of ministerial control

Clare Sambrook, 3 February 2011
As recently as 10 January, the Home Office falsely claimed that no child had been detained for immigration purposes this past Christmas. A Freedom of Information Request extracted the truth, proving that the Home Office cannot be trusted on child detention.
Tuesday 11th January

Man or mouse? Keith Vaz should demand urgent reform of the UK Border Agency

Clare Sambrook, 11 January 2011
A report on the UK Border Agency's work, published today by the Home Affairs Select Committee, exposes poor decision-making and notes MPs' concern around the training of employees in the use of force. Clare Sambrook, co-ordinator of the campaign End Child Detention Now, welcomes the report, but says it hasn't gone far enough.
Friday 31st December

Mind the Gap! Coalition claims and realities for child detention in the UK

Clare Sambrook, 31 December 2010
As we head into 2011, the Coalition has still not fulfilled their pledge to end child detention. Clare Sambrook outlines the glaring gap between the government's words and deeds regarding a policy proven to cause children serious and lasting physical and mental harm.
Wednesday 15th December

Five years of denial: the UK government’s reckless pursuit of a punitive asylum policy — never mind the evidence of harm

Clare Sambrook, 15 December 2010
As Nick Clegg prepares to make a statement that will either end the scandal of child detention by the immigration authorities, or make the deputy prime minister a mere bagman for more Home Office trickery, Clare Sambrook gathers five years of evidence that the Home Office has variously ignored, badmouthed and buried.
Monday 8th November

UK government's slippery response on the "moral outrage" of child detention

Clare Sambrook, 8 November 2010
On November 5, the campaign published a detailed rebuttal of the UK government’s recent statement on child detention
Friday 15th October

Meet G4S, Government’s untouchable friend

Clare Sambrook, 15 October 2010
The death of an Angolan man on a deportation flight from the UK highlights the increasingly brutal and unaccountable manner in which the country's borders are policed.
Monday 13th September

State-sponsored cruelty

Clare Sambrook, 13 September 2010
The Liberal Democrats must fight to salvage their promise to end the detention of children for immigration purposes in the UK.
Wednesday 19th May

When they said ‘We will end child detention,’ they meant ‘Keep on arresting babies’

Clare Sambrook, 19 May 2010
Children are still being detained in the UK immigration system.
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