Following the launch of our Data gathering project in March, consultant David Waterfall, whom NACCOM has commissioned to deliver the project, has been busy meeting members and supporting the development of NACCOM's 2021 Annual Membership [...]
NACCOM has joined a new coalition, Together With Refugees, which launches on the 10th May. The campaign is calling for a better approach to supporting people seeking sanctuary that is effective, fair and humane. It is [...]
Evictions from asylum accommodation for people who have been refused asylum, which have been paused for the majority of the Covid-19 pandemic, are expected to resume in the near future. This follows several legal challenges, which [...]
In April, we welcomed Heather Petch to the NACCOM team as Interim Director. On joining NACCOM, Heather said: "I have been entrusted with the Interim Director role to work with Naccom trustees, staff, member organisations [...]
Safe in Scotland has been preventing homelessness among asylum seekers since 2011. In the below guest blog, we hear how the charity - formerly Glasgow Night Shelter for Destitute Asylum Seekers - has remodelled their [...]
NACCOM member the Jesuit Refugee Service UK (JRS UK) has called for an overhaul of the UK asylum system in their new report, Being Human in the Asylum System, which was launched in April 2021. [...]
In December 2020, NACCOM supported two experts by experience to give evidence to a panel of MPs at the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Select Committee looking at the impact of Covid-19 on the [...]
Renae Mann, our outgoing National Director, reflects on her time at NACCOM: It’s been my huge privilege to lead NACCOM for the last seven months, and to see how a dedicated group of people can [...]
NACCOM's response to the Government's New Plan for Immigration, which was launched on 24th March 2021. "The proposals announced today as part of the New Plan for Immigration lay bare the Government’s contempt for the [...]
NACCOM has joined with Liberty Human Rights, expert charities, NGOs and lawyers to launch the Protect Everyone Bill - a new approach to ensuring that everyone, without exception, is supported to safely follow public health [...]
Evidencing the vital role that frontline services play in responding to destitution is critical for effective influencing of decision-makers about the policies that create such problems in the first place, and in the process of identifying and strengthening good practice models to demonstrate how it can be prevented. As [...]
CEO of Hope Projects in the West Midlands, and NACCOM Trustee, Phil Davis reflects below on the lessons learnt by one frontline charity as they continue to support people experiencing destitution at the hands of [...]
New immigration rules targeting people sleeping rough will endanger lives, undermine progress in reducing homelessness and must be reconsidered. That is the message being sent today (November 5th) the UK Government by Crisis, Shelter, St [...]
As of the 15th September, the Home Office has resumed evictions from asylum accommodation for people with a negative decision in England, with plans to resume in Scotland and Wales in the future. We are [...]
The charity Asylum Matters has published a report - ‘Locked into Poverty – life on asylum support’ - which reveals a picture of poverty, exclusion and hardship for people seeking asylum wholly reliant on Government support [...]
On Anti-Slavery Day 2020 (18th October), NACCOM has joined with over 50 organisations, activists and individuals to write to the Prime Minister with the message that the UK's emphasis on immigration control, at the expense [...]
NACCOM has joined a campaign coordinated by Doctors of the World, Lancett Migration and the Faculty of Public Health calling for universal and equitable access to NHS services, during the Covid-19 crisis and beyond. The [...]
Today (October 1st 2020), NACCOM joins 228 organisations and 597 individuals who are joining together as a collective voice to tell the Prime Minister to reverse the decision to evict people with No Recourse to [...]
A group of UK faith leaders, including representatives from Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Hindu communities, has written to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, calling for the Government to reverse its plan to make thousands of [...]
NACCOM invites members, partners and supporters to join us for the online launch of our Annual Survey and Impact Report at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 28th September 2020. Attendees will hear about [...]
A new report released today highlights the damaging impact that the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) policy has on people trying to access vital support services during the pandemic. The research on ‘Local authority [...]
NACCOM has supported an open letter coordinated by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and signed by 99 other civil society groups, Windrush survivors and religious organisations, to demand safe and legal [...]
NACCOM, alongside 200 other UK organsiations, is part of the #LiftTheBan coalition, a group campaigning to overturn the ban on people working whilst seeking asylum in the UK. This month (August) saw the publication of [...]
We are pleased to announce that Renae Mann will be joining the No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) to take up the role of National Director. Renae joins NACCOM from Refugee Action, where has been the National [...]
Destitution and homelessness have been built-in features of the UK immigration system for some time. However, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, many migrants have temporarily been protected from homelessness due to two key [...]
The immigration system before COVID-19 was intentionally dysfunctional, deliberately placing people in positions of extreme vulnerability. The impact of this dysfunctional system is that we are now unprepared to face the huge challenges that COVID-19 [...]
NACCOM, along with over 60 other organisations, has jointly written to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to urge the Government to put in place measures to protect those experiencing homelessness and destitution because of their [...]
New cost-benefit analysis shows that extending the refugee move-on period would save public money – but we must not lose sight of the moral case for changing a policy that leaves people ‘destitute by design’, [...]
NACCOM has submitted evidence to the National Audit Office's inquiry into Universal Credit, and the five-week wait to receive the first payment. Jessie Seal, our Campaigns and Policy Coordinator, explains why it's vital that the [...]
The charity Women for Refugee Women has released some important new research looking into the experiences of asylum-seeking women in the UK. The new report, Will I ever be safe? Asylum-seeking women made destitute in [...]
