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Here’s how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025
Bridget Young

Here’s how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025

Refugees are being made homeless in unprecedented numbers, says NACCOM director Bridget Young. 2025 could be a year of change

Calls to give Syrian asylum seekers right to work while UK suspends refugee applications
Syria

Calls to give Syrian asylum seekers right to work while UK suspends refugee applications

The UK government has suspended decisions on asylum claims from Syrians after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels
Refugee homelessness

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels

Newly-recognised refugees will now have 56, rather than 28 days, to find new accommodation after getting leave to remain

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: ‘I want to show the world that refugees can do anything’
Sport

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: ‘I want to show the world that refugees can do anything’

‘This will ease the backlog’: Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Legal aid

‘This will ease the backlog’: Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

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‘Remember these are human beings’: This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean
Immigration

‘Remember these are human beings’: This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean

‘I’m furious’: UK’s ‘rushed’ rollout of digital eVisas risks creating another Windrush scandal
Immigration

‘I’m furious’: UK’s ‘rushed’ rollout of digital eVisas risks creating another Windrush scandal

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here’s how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal
Sairah Javed

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here’s how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn’t just ludicrous – it’s desperate
Letters

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn’t just ludicrous – it’s desperate

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick
Social Justice

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick

‘Broken’ legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing ‘life and death’ decisions alone
Legal aid

‘Broken’ legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing ‘life and death’ decisions alone

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here’s why
Legal aid

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here’s why

My family has waited five years for an asylum decision. Here’s how it strips your dignity
Miguel

My family has waited five years for an asylum decision. Here’s how it strips your dignity

Everything Labour must do to fix broken prison system as early release scheme gets underway
Prisons

Everything Labour must do to fix broken prison system as early release scheme gets underway

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: ‘It’s degrading’
Immigration

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: ‘It’s degrading’

‘This is not human’: UK asylum system pushing refugees into ‘homelessness and danger’, report finds
Asylum system

‘This is not human’: UK asylum system pushing refugees into ‘homelessness and danger’, report finds

Here’s the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down
UK riots

Here’s the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further
Bibby Stockholm

Campaigners welcome closure of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge – but Labour faces calls to go further

Queer asylum seekers ‘not safe’ in UK due to ‘institutionalised homophobia’ in Home Office, report finds
LGBTQ+ rights

Queer asylum seekers ‘not safe’ in UK due to ‘institutionalised homophobia’ in Home Office, report finds

What safe routes? Britain’s broken system forcing refugees to take dangerous journeys, report finds
Migrant crisis

What safe routes? Britain’s broken system forcing refugees to take dangerous journeys, report finds

The homelessness crisis cannot continue: Are the major parties’ promises enough to tackle it?
Rick Henderson

The homelessness crisis cannot continue: Are the major parties’ promises enough to tackle it?

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Home Office drops plan to arrest homeless people if they smell
Homelessness

Home Office drops plan to arrest homeless people if they smell

Call for MPs to support new Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians trapped in Gaza
Israel-Gaza war

Call for MPs to support new Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians trapped in Gaza

Home Office whistleblower reveals ‘shame’ of working on ‘crackpot Tory’ plan to criminalise homelessness
Homelessness

Home Office whistleblower reveals ‘shame’ of working on ‘crackpot Tory’ plan to criminalise homelessness

‘Helpless’ UK residents call for Home Office to help get families out of Gaza: ‘We feel betrayed’
Israel-Gaza war

‘Helpless’ UK residents call for Home Office to help get families out of Gaza: ‘We feel betrayed’