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This collection brings together guidance about visiting the UK used by UK Visas and Immigration.
How and when welfare checks must be made to assess if a sponsor is an appropriate host. Includes note taking and follow up visits.
Principles to support decision making for those involved in safely planning and protecting visiting during outbreaks of infectious illness in adult social care.
Risley is a prison for men in Warrington, Cheshire, including men convicted of a sex offence.
Reasons for a support visit from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Visiting Team, what to expect and how to check if the visitor is genuine
Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor for tourism, business, study (courses up to 6 months), medical treatment and other activities. Find out whether you need a Standard Visitor visa, or can visit without a visa.
Coldingley is a prison for adult men in Woking, Surrey.
Cookham Wood is a young offender institution (YOI) in Rochester, Kent, for boys and young men aged 15 to 18.
Pentonville is a men’s prison and young offender institution in the London Borough of Islington, North London.
Send is a women’s prison in Woking, Surrey.
Wymott is a prison for men near Leyland, Lancashire, including men convicted of a sex offence.
Standford Hill is an open prison for men. It is one of 3 prisons that form the Sheppey Cluster in Kent, along with HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside.
Woodhill is a men’s high security prison and young offender institution (YOI) in Milton Keynes.
Dartmoor is a men’s prison in Devon.
Featherstone is a men’s prison in the village of Featherstone, near Wolverhampton.
Leyhill is an open prison for men near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
Kirklevington Grange is an open prison in Stockton-on-Tees for men resettling in the north-east of England.
Stoke Heath is a men’s prison and young offender institution (YOI) in the village of Stoke Heath, Shropshire.
Garth is a men’s high security prison near Leyland, Lancashire.
Make a request for a social visit to someone in a prison in England and Wales
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