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Blog | We have a new Government – so what now?
NACCOM welcomes the new ministerial teams getting to work this week at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Home Office (HO) – led by Secretaries of State Angela Raynor (also Deputy Prime Minister) and Yvette Copper respectively – and we look forward to representing our frontline network and working meaningfully with the new Government, as well as cross-party groups, to end destitution in the asylum and immigration system across the UK. Together, these two departments hold the key to ensuring that people going through the asylum system, and in the wider immigration system, aren’t driven [...]
General Election | How are the main parties promising to tackle destitution in the asylum and immigration system
NACCOM’s vision is for the UK to have a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system, which enables people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants to be free from destitution and to live with dignity and agency. As part of this, we want to see an end to homelessness and destitution for everyone - regardless of immigration status. Ahead of the General Election on July 4th, NACCOM’s Policy and Research Co-ordinator, Leon Elliott, looks at the main party manifestos, including those in devolved nations, to see what Labour, Conservatives, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party (SNP) [...]
Open letter | Over 100 organisations write to party leaders urging action on migrant homelessness
119 organisations working in the fields of homelessness and migrants’ rights have today written to the leaders of the Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat parties, urging whoever forms the next Government to address the issue of migrant homelessness and ensure that the asylum and immigration systems no longer drives people needlessly into homelessness and destitution. The letter, which was jointly coordinated by the charities Homeless Link and NACCOM and sent ahead of the final head-to-head debate between Starmer and Sunak, is signed by a range of organisations. These include leading national homelessness charities Crisis, Shelter and St Mungo’s, refugee [...]
Blog | General Election campaigning – how we’re calling for an end to destitution
As our political parties gear up for a surprise summer General Election on July 4th, organisations and groups working across the migration, refugee, homelessness and housing sectors are considering how best to engage with political decision-makers to ensure that refugee and migrants’ rights, and the issues that affect them, are high on the policy agenda for any incoming Government. NACCOM’s vision is for the UK to have a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system, which enables people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants to be free from destitution and to live with dignity and agency. But current [...]
of people who were referred to or made enquiries to member organisations this year (600/735 people) were facing street homelessness
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Blog | We have a new Government – so what now?
NACCOM welcomes the new ministerial teams getting to work this week at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Home Office (HO) – led by Secretaries [...]
General Election | How are the main parties promising to tackle destitution in the asylum and immigration system
NACCOM’s vision is for the UK to have a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system, which enables people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants to be free [...]
Blog | Launching our Annual Survey 2024
Since 2013, NACCOM has gathered data from our members through our Annual Survey, which enables us to track the scale and impact of destitution in the asylum and immigration system. [...]