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Home Office operating standards for the detention services escort process.

• Updated: 1 January 2012

FCDO travel advice for Ecuador. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 2 January 2026

• Warnings and insurance

  Your travel insurance could be invalidated if you travel against advice…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  You should also read FCDO’s overall travel advice and regional risks…

• Regional risks

  This section has safety advice for regions of Ecuador. It only covers…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

List of medical repatriation companies for British nationals who are seriously ill or injured abroad and need medical evacuation to the UK.

• Updated: 21 November 2025

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides lists of English-speaking translators and interpreters abroad to help British nationals find the support they need.

• Updated: 19 June 2024

Rules covering how entertainment and modelling agencies work; charging fees and refunds for for finding work

Policy and guidance for public and contracted prisons on how to prevent the risk of escape during external escorts.

• Updated: 8 January 2026

Detention services order 01/2019 about standards on the use, management and storage of detainee escort records.

• Updated: 18 April 2019

Information and advice on cleaning sex-on-premises venues.

• Updated: 8 June 2022

Guidance for inspectors on inspecting separation by sex in schools and the teaching of protected characteristics and relationships and sex education (RSE).

• Updated: 5 November 2025

• Updated: 23 October 2024