STOP BORDER VIOLENCE.
A new report from Project Play highlights the devastating impact of UK-funded border violence. Support our campaign for a public inquiry into UK spending at the border.
“[The police] bring out the knives and pepper spray then guns. I was like… I’m only a child. Why are you doing this?... we want to be safe and that’s it.”
- Miel*, 15, and Y*, 13,
In 2024 and 2025, 22 children lost their lives at the UK-France border.
These deaths did not happen in isolation. Since 2014, the UK government has spent at least £784 million funding border enforcement in northern France, while at the same time restricting and removing access to safe routes to asylum.
Our new report centres the voices and experiences of the children and families we worked with in 2025 to trace the policy and funding decisions that gave rise to this violence, and to make the case for accountability and urgent change - centrally, calling for a public inquiry into UK spending at the border.
Join the Campaign
Sign our petition calling for a public statutory inquiry into the UK government’s funding of violent and dehumanising border enforcement in northern France.
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ORGANISE
We are organising vigils across in solidarity with the children and others who have died attempting to reach safety in the UK - please join us if you can. More info here.
Find out more:
NOWHERE SAFE
- February 2025
"YOU CAN'T STAY BUT YOU CAN'T GO" - December 2025
"WE WANT TO BE SAFE"
- July 2025
This work is dedicated to those who have lost their lives on the UK-France border.
We stand in solidarity with all those impacted by violent border regimes across the globe.
