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Asylum Accommodation

Social services threatened to take refugee's newborn baby away in row over horror hostel
A stock image of a baby's foot
Asylum accommodation

Social services threatened to take refugee's newborn baby away in row over horror hostel

Ali was sharing one bed in a homeless hostel with his wife and young son. When his baby daughter was born, he didn't want to bring her to that environment
Refugees need more help to avoid becoming trapped in homelessness
a homeless person on the street
John Perry

Refugees need more help to avoid becoming trapped in homelessness

Labour pledge to end use of asylum hotels 'good for refugees, the taxpayer and communities'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves No 11 Downing Street, to deliver her Spending Review
Immigration

Labour pledge to end use of asylum hotels 'good for refugees, the taxpayer and communities'

This housing project claims it could save Labour millions on housing asylum seekers in hotels
Homelessness

This housing project claims it could save Labour millions on housing asylum seekers in hotels

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?
Alex Firth and Michael Garcia Bochenek

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
This woman's asylum hotel reminded her of being detained. Here's how we can stop failing refugees
Counter-protesters react to a far-right protest outside an asylum seeker hotel
Emine Yoca

This woman's asylum hotel reminded her of being detained. Here's how we can stop failing refugees

This is what Christmas is like for thousands of asylum seekers in hotels: 'It's more like a prison'
A silhouette of a man in front of the shape of a Christmas tree
Asylum hotels

This is what Christmas is like for thousands of asylum seekers in hotels: 'It's more like a prison'

10 acts of violence and far-right 'activism' police ignored ahead of summer riots
protesters surround a police van
UK riots

10 acts of violence and far-right 'activism' police ignored ahead of summer riots

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

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

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'
Bibby Stockholm protest
Asylum hotels

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'

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