NACCOM and Asylum Matters have produced a joint briefing, which has been sent to Local Authorities, on preventing evictions into homelessness from asylum accommodation during COVID-19 and beyond. In March, with the onset of the pandemic and as the country was put into lockdown due to COVID-19, […]
NACCOM has joined with Crisis and over 40 other organisations working in the homelessness sector to call on the Government to urgently introduce emergency homelessness legislation to protect people facing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic, including those with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). In a joint […]
The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a report into the Home’s Office’s asylum accommodation and AIRE (Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility) contracts, after it transitioned to them in September 2019. NACCOM and other sector partners welcome the report after flagging up concerns about both contracts’ performance, […]
In May, NACCOM was asked to give evidence to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, which was looking into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP’s) response to the Coronavirus. Jessie Seal, NACCOM’s Campaigns and Policy Co-ordinator, appeared by video link to talk about […]
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. This year’s Refugee Week, which took place between June 15th and June 21st, asked us to #Imagine a better world for refugees, and to undertake a series of simple acts that would bring […]
NACCOM has joined more than a hundred charities, campaign groups, lawyers and local councillors to urge local councils not to evict homeless people with NRPF from emergency accommodation provided through the Covid-19 homelessness response. The open letter, coordinated by Haringey Migrant Support Centre, also asks councils not […]
Hazel Williams, NACCOM’s National Director, reflects on the damaging impact of racism within the UK’s immigration system, and underlines NACCOM’s commitment to being an anti-racist organisation, through our work, policies and practices. NACCOM’s full statement on our anti-racism commitment: The Black Lives Matter protests of the last […]
On Monday 8th June, the Home Office announced a shameful increase of just £1.85 a week to the financial support people seeking asylum in the UK rely on. That’s a meagre 26p a day; and leaves people still forced to live off little more than £5 a […]
Jobs across the network in June, including roles at Hope Projects in Birmingham, Kings Arms Project in Bedford, Praxis in London and Micro Rainbow. Are you a NACCOM member with a job to advertise? Then get in touch and let us help you publicise it. Please see NACCOM’s recruitment […]
At NACCOM, a key way that we work to end destitution is by gathering evidence on the needs of people requiring the services of our membership, due to failures in the immigration system that have left them homeless and destitute. Such data, alongside the stories of people with lived experience of such injustices, informs our policy and campaign work whilst supporting the development of good […]
In response to the COVID-10 pandemic, NACCOM partnered with Dr Mirjam Thullesen, a psychologist and psychotherapist with specialist knowledge of working in the refugee field, to run a series of online wellbeing workshops for our members looking at self-care and boundary setting whilst working from home. Mirjam […]
NACCOM has joined with partners across the sector to call on the Prime Minister to scrap the Government’s NRPF policy. On Wednesday 27th May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson committed to review the No Recourse to Public Funds policy (NRPF), saying ‘people who’ve worked hard for this country […]
On March 26th, the Government instructed Local Authorities to accommodate all rough sleepers (regardless of immigration status) during the pandemic. After reports were circulated last week (May 15th) in the Manchester Evening News that the Government was now ‘winding up’ its ‘Everyone In’ programme, the Ministry for […]
***Please note that the application process for the below post has now closed*** The No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) is recruiting for the post of National Director. An experienced and dynamic manager is required to lead a growing and ambitious charity to consolidate and further develop its position […]
In this guest blog from a new host with NACCOM member Action Foundation in Newcastle, we hear from Helen*, who writes an honest, funny, poignant and thoughtful account of her and her family’s experience welcoming their first guest into their home – just as lockdown was announced. […]
Digital inclusion is particularly important not only to help service users access vital online services during the pandemic, but to reduce social isolation and support mental health and wellbeing during this extremely challenging time. The question of how best to support people accommodated across the network in […]
Since the onset of the pandemic in the UK, alongside other organisations in the sector, NACCOM has been campaigning the Government to introduce some key policy changes in order to protect and support people with insecure migration status, those seeking asylum and refugees experiencing homelessness and destitution […]
What’s it like to be homeless during a global pandemic? Everybody who is experiencing street homelessness is at extreme risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. They need immediate support in order to protect individual and public health and to be able to follow government guidance on social distancing, […]
The immigration system before COVID-19 was intentionally dysfunctional, deliberately placing people in positions of extreme vulnerability. People have been left in danger, without access to healthcare or housing and unable to follow the basic government guidelines to protect themselves from COVID-19. Alongside other organisations in the sector, […]
As part of our Covid-19 response, we’re offering leaders and managers of NACCOM member charities access to free 1:1 coaching and HR support. Nicola Parker is an HR expert with over 2o years’ experience in the refugee sector. Nicola is offering free coaching and 1:1 guidance to […]
In light of the changing HR situation many organisations are finding themselves in, we are currently able to offer Full Members of NACCOM access to free specialist HR advice over the phone with an HR consultant, plus access to relevant briefings if needed. How to access your […]
NACCOM is pleased to invite members to a free online event: Looking After Yourself Webinar, taking place on three different dates in April and May ****** NACCOM is offering members affected by the COVID-19 crisis, the opportunity to take part in a 1.5 hour psychosocial support […]
With the onset of the pandemic, and the disruption to normal service provision, many NACCOM members are having to consider alternatives to cash payments to support people who are destitute. To help member organisations with this, NACCOM has produced an information and advice document, including two offers from […]
On March 26th, NACCOM, member charities in our network, and other leading charities from across the migration sector, have once again written to the Prime Minister, urging him to make vital support available to those unable to access public funds due to their uncertain migration status, during […]
The NACCOM team continues to monitor national and sector advice relating to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) that is already in the public domain, and want where possible to signpost you to the most appropriate sources of general advice available, while at the same time drawing some specific points […]
Today (March 19th 2020), over 70 leading charities, organisations and individuals that provide essential services for people who are destitute and homeless because of their migration status are calling on the Government to take urgent action, as the Covid-19 crisis escalates. In a letter addressed to the […]
Our Campaigns and Policy Coordinator, Jessie Seal, gives us an update on some key advocacy activity and developments from the last few weeks. Joint campaigns: #LiftTheBan This week, the #LiftTheBan coalition held their first meeting since the start of the new parliament. Some incredible work has been […]
The Church of England has launched a competition to support five church-led projects that are looking to build community and empower people, whilst also meeting an identified housing need. Applicants are invited from churches of all denominations that are actively exploring the possibility of a small-scale housing […]
On International Women’s Day 2020 (#IWD2020), we’re sharing the story of Leah, who spoke to us about her experiences as a woman left destitute by the UK asylum system. My name is Leah. I’m a destitute asylum seeker. I live in Nottingham. I would like to share […]
Jobs across the network in March include roles at the Refugee Survival Trust in Glasgow, and at Glasgow Night Shelter for Destitute Asylum Seekers. Are you a NACCOM member with a job to advertise? Then get in touch and let us help you publicise it. Organisation: Refugee […]
