Our statement on the Home Office New Plan for Immigration
Asylum and detention We believe that the inhumane practice of detention should have no part in the asylum process (or indeed in a humane and just immigration system). We firmly believe that we should not lock up people because of [...]
Use of former army barracks
At our members' meeting last month, we heard from two of our members, Kent Refugee Help and Samphire, about the recent use of army barracks in Kent to accommodate people seeking asylum. Our members are really concerned at this increasing [...]
Proposed new detention centre
We were very disappointed, when we were alerted by one of our members recently, about a proposed new detention centre in the North East. The Northern Echo reported that Government plans to scrap a residential development in favour of creating an [...]
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The Home Office faces scrutiny esp for its plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
60 staff were dismissed in 2019-20 + 2023-24 for offences inc bullying, harassment, discrimination, abuse of position, theft, corruption, fraud or forgery. 63 more received written warnings.
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The Home Office is set to close 150 asylum hotels imminently, to meet its promise to reduce the use of temporary accommodation.
But with impracticably little time to find accommodation, the number people leaving Home Office hotels only to sleep rough has more than doubled.
The Asylum Reform Initiative who oversee @RefugeeTogether are seeking to appoint its first independent Chair.
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