The Home Office has launched a new Interim Guidance: Requesting a second opinion for an external medical report/Medico-Legal Report as a part of their offender administration caseworker steering. The new steering goals to “introduce an additional, clinical input to assist decision-making for those who may be vulnerable in immigration detention”.
The steering is for use in step with the present Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention (AAR) policy which accommodates a set of requirements in opposition to which to judge external medical reviews as proof of the vulnerability of migrants. It applies the place an external medical report has been obtained on behalf of an particular person detained below immigration powers. Where medical proof is submitted for asylum claims in non-detention instances, the Medical evidence in asylum claims: caseworker guidance needs to be adopted.
The start line for the brand new steering is that “all external medical reports requiring consideration under the AAR policy received whilst a person is detained under immigration powers should be referred into the second opinion process”. Exceptions apply, together with the place a removing is because of happen inside the subsequent 10 working days, or the place a individual has already been launched from detention. External medical reviews obtained previous to an people present interval of detention shouldn’t be referred to the second opinion course of. There can be no want for the Home Office to request a second opinion the place…
