Calling on Local Authorities to Fight the #AntiRefugee Laws
In July 2023, the UK Government’s Illegal Migration Act passed into law, destroying the right to seek safety in the UK. This cruel and unworkable piece of legislation followed...
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More than 320 organisations call out UK Government’s latest Anti-Refugee Bill
More than 320 organisations have signed an open letter to PM Rishi Sunak condemning the Illegal Migration Bill, the UK Government’s latest #AntiRefugeeBill. The full letter, as well as...
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...
Asylum Support briefing – Jan 2023
UPDATE: The Home Office provided another interim increase to asylum support in July 2023 so the current level of asylum support is £47.39 and to £9.58 for those in...
The High Street Challenge: win local businesses support for Lift the Ban
Business backing for the right to work has always been strong, and we need decision makers to know this. Therefore for the next stage of the campaign, we are...
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...
We are recruiting for three new trustee roles to further strengthen our board – full details on how to apply
Asylum Matters is looking to further strengthen our board by recruiting three new trustees, each with knowledge, experience and insight into at least one of the following areas: Lived...
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...
Guest Blog: The #AntiRefugeeLaws throw people back to war and persecution
Kidist Teklemariam, the Director of Unleashing Refugee Potential C.I.C, has shared a guest blog outlining why we must fight the UK Government’s cruel #Anti-RefugeeLaws. “I was recently asked, ‘What...