Detention services orders
Detention services orders for Home Office officials.
This collection contains detention services orders. These are instructions outlining procedures to be followed by Home Office staff.
Documents
- Accommodation standards
- Adults at risk in immigration detention: modern slavery
- Age dispute cases in immigration detention centres
- Assessment care in detention and teamwork
- Caring for and managing transsexual detainees
- Commissioning investigations and management reviews
- Considering detainee placement
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): immigration removal centres
- Deaths in detention
- Detainee access to video call service
- Detainee Custody Officer and Detainee Custody Officer (Escort) certification
- Detainee escort records
- Detained individuals who refuse to eat or drink
- Detention and escorting: safeguarding children
- Detention Rule 35 process
- Detention services operating standards manual
- Electronic monitoring devices: installation and removal
- Escorting detainees with cash
- Extremism and radicalisation
- Families in detention: outside activities
- Families in immigration removal centres
- Fingerprinting detainees
- Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements
- Handling complaints in immigration removal centres
- Internet access for detainees
- Interpretation services and use of translation devices
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees
- Management and security of night state
- Management of adults at risk in immigration detention
- Managing detainees' money over £1000
- Managing property of detainees in the UK
- Marriage or civil partnership of detainees
- Medical appointments outside the detention estate
- Medical emergency response codes
- Medical information sharing
- Mental vulnerability and immigration detention
- Mobile phones and cameras in immigration removal centres
- Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA)
- Notification of removal directions to detainees
- Operating standards for the detention services escort process
- Paid activities for detainees
- Pregnant women in detention
- Reception and induction checklist and supplementary guidance
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
- Release of detainees from immigration detention
- Removal from association and temporary confinement
- Removing hidden blades from detainees
- Reporting and communicating incidents
- Room sharing risk assessment (RSRA)
- Searching detainees at removal centres
- Security information reports
- Self harm reduction strategy
- Surveillance camera systems
- Travel warrants for detainees attending First-tier Tribunals (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
- Unescorted domestic shuttle flights
- Use of restraints for escorted moves
- Using profits from shops in immigration removal centres
- Visitors and visiting procedures for detained individuals
- Welfare provision in immigration removal centres
- Whistleblowing and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (c.23)
- Women in detention
Last updated 5 August 2022 + show all updates
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Added detention services order 03/2022 about the care and management of potential and confirmed victims of modern slavery in detention.
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Added link to 02/2022 'Interpretation services and use of translation devices' to the collection page.
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New DSO added on mental vulnerability and immigration detention
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Updated to add guidance on Whistleblowing and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (c.23).
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Added new DSO on detainee access to video call service.
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Added new staff guidance for dealing with coronavirus (COVID-19) in immigration removal centres and residential short-term holding facilities.
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New DSO on multi-agency public protection arrangement (MAPPA).
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Detainee escort records added to the collection.
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"Management and security of night state" document added.
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Added new detention services order 4/2017 on surveillance camera systems. Removed detention services order 2/2006 on releasing detainees by IS106 release orders, now superseded by new detention services order 1/2018 on the release of detainees from immigration detention.
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New DSO on Removal from association and temporary confinement.
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New guidance on Gatwick pre departure accommodation arrangements.
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New guidance added: management of adults at risk in immigration detention.
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New dentention service order on the detention rule 35 process.
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DSO 07/2016 "Use of restraints for escorted moves" added.
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DSO 06/2016 'Women in detention' added.
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DSO 04/2016 'Internet access for detainees' added.
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DSO 03/2016 'Considering detainee placement' added.
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Detention service order 02/2016 added on lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees.
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New dentention service order 1/16 on medical information sharing.
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Removal of routine dental appointments for detainees in removal centres guidance.
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New guidance on reporting and communicating incidents out of hours added.
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New detention service order (DSO) 4/2015 on unescorted domestic shuttle flights.
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New dention service order on regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
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Updated guidance documents.
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Added DSOs to collection
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added Detention Services Order: Security Information Reports
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New DSO on medical emergency response codes.
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New risk assessment guidance for contracted escort staff.
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New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
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New detention service order on risk assessment guidance for escorted moves.
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