New #CommunitiesNotCamps Resources – Jan 2024
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...
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...
Today, Asylum Matters alongside Action Foundation, Birmingham Community Hosting, Birmingham Refugee and Asylum Seekers Solidarity (BRASS), Life Seeker’s Aid Charity and Stories of Hope and Home are launching...
On Friday 19th March, people across the UK took part in the #ClosetheBarracks day of action to demand that the Government allows people seeking asylum to be welcomed as...
Today Asylum Matters launches a new guide to the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract (AASC) and what it says about full board and initial accommodation. The resources we have...