Open Letter to Port of Tyne: No Floating Prisons on the Tyne
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...
Public Letter to PD Ports: No Floating Prisons on the Tees
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,...
New Briefing: Principles for Asylum Dispersal
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...
New Briefing: Asylum Accommodation and Quasi-Detention
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...
Joint letter to Home Secretary and Defence Secretary on accommodation centres
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...
Communities, not camps – stop accommodation centres!
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...
New Joint Report: ‘In a place like prison’: voices from institutional asylum accommodation
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...
#CloseTheBarracks Day of Action
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...
New resources on full-board asylum accommodation
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...
New joint report exposes fragility and failures of the asylum support and accommodation system
Forty-two refugee support organisations across the UK have today published a report based on evidence they provided to the National Audit Office during its investigation into the Home...