Working in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change.
Asylum Accommodation
Policies that demonise and punish people seeking asylum in a bid to court headlines have contributed to successive governments losing control of our asylum system, a new report has...
Asylum Matters welcomes the news announced by the Home Office on Tuesday that the use of the ‘prison-like’ Bibby Stockholm barge to house people seeking asylum will not be...
The House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have today published a report that challenges the Home Office over the lasting harm and financial cost of ‘institutional’ asylum accommodation...
As we enter a General Election year in 2024, calling on decision-makers to ensure that people seeking asylum are housed in communities, not camps, barracks and barges, is more...
In early June, reports in the Guardian suggested that the Government is considering plans to use a barge to accommodate people seeking asylum on the Tyne. In response, people across...
In early June, reports in the Guardian suggested that the Government is considering plans to use a barge to accommodate people seeking asylum at Teesport. In response, people across Teesside,...
Asylum Matters and NACCOM have launched a new briefing ‘Principles for Asylum Dispersal’. In April 2022 the Home Office announced the new policy of ‘Full Dispersal’ where all local...
The current ‘crisis’ in the asylum accommodation system is a result of the failure of the Home Office to make timely decisions, recent reforms in the Nationality and Borders...
24 organisations write to the Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Defence calling on them to scrap all plans for asylum accommodation centres, following the decision to withdraw...
People seeking asylum should be housed in communities, not camps. However, the UK Government is planning to warehouse and segregate people seeking asylum in accommodation centres across the country...
