There has been a 59% jump in the number of unaccompanied children arriving in Kent this year. The council there says it's 'overwhelmed'. Other local authorities - many facing bankruptcy - have been unable to accommodate them. Safeguarding shambolic.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'data riddled with errors combined w/a very primitive tool that is not backed by science...create what is potentially a highly inaccurate tool that appears to be identifying the vast majority of people as high risk”
Daniel Ghezelbash in excellent Ariel Bogle story
theguardian.com/australia-news…

An amazing 🧵 about High Court of Australia decision in #ASF17 .

Urgent Notification issued for HMP Wandsworth
👉7 suicides in the last year
👉drugs rife
👉security not good enough despite last year’s escape
👉most prisoners locked up for 22 hours a day, often with no time outdoors

Conservative policy is to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Labour stands against the Rwanda plan & will clear the backlog trapped in limbo by processing asylum claims.

Polls & election results are clear which the public want. Lab has everything to lose if they lose their nerve.

6/ We urge government to learn from the experiences of workers who have travelled to the UK on the Seasonal Worker visa scheme to support our agricultural sector and introduce changes to make the visa safer and fairer for workers
x.com/focusonlabour/…

Refugee Council 🧡 It also sounded like the Home Office haven't begun processing claims made after 7 March 2023 yet. Given around 9 in 10 claims as of 14 April 2024 were made after that date, it's really not clear what the 2,500 asylum decision makers are doing right now.

you can absolutely argue about whether Labour having a ridiculous supermajority would be a good thing or not, but after the last fourteen years the Tories deserve to be annihilated and it'll be good for the country if they are

I have set out some of those here:

freemovement.org.uk/the-inadmissib…

In which I go through my Rwanda briefing in some depth, and then tell everyone to ignore Colin

(was very disappointed that post production removed the noise of a dog barking at the exact moment Colin described the law on EU deports as a 'dog's dinner')

open.spotify.com/episode/1hSIU7…

Shu Shin Luh, author of LAG’s new Migrant Support Handbook, covered the allocation of asylum support accommodation.

She explained the suitability criteria and highlighted the many issues with the assessment process, particularly for vulnerable individuals.

#asylumsupport

The government is extending the Seasonal Worker Route for 5 years, until 2029.

45,000 visas will be available in 2025, with future quotas to be set out later this year.

gov.uk/government/pub…

Connor Johnston Law Society Gazette Back to the conference! Donnchadh Greene joins our 2nd panel to discuss safeguarding those living in HO accommodation.

He highlights the importance of safeguarding given the rise in anti-migrant and anti-LGBTQ+ abuse and the legal challenges that can be used to protect clients.

Monish Bhatia Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti Institute of Race Relations Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project The Black Criminology Network CIC™️ The BSA British Criminology SLSA York Law School UoY Sociology The University of York Politics Society The Racial Justice Network Leeds Anti Raids Action Thanks for highlighting this Monish.
This was the 'breakfast' at Urban House Initial Accommodation Centre in Wakefield until residents organised and complained. Mears Group were paid £1.15 billion in the 2019 asylum accomm contract. Where did the money go? Not on food clearly

1/7🧵
Racism and the Food System: Asylum Hotels and Beyond - Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti and me in Institute of Race Relations
We argue that rotten food served in the asylum hotels is now endemic. It is no aberration or accident and needs to be viewed in the context of 'food systems'
irr.org.uk/article/racism…

We have compiled info on Rwanda removals for survivors of modern slavery + human trafficking who are worried they may be affected or need to know their options:

afterexploitation.com/2024/05/09/rwa…

Thank you to Sonia L of Free Movement for supporting

UPDATE: The Home Office has stopped publishing the stats.

It comes a day after we reported that the HO had admitted its own data was unverified + likely to have 'a relatively high degree of measurement error'.

Aid workers said the data was 'misleading'👇
inews.co.uk/news/home-offi…

What’s this? Only our very own Nakita Hedges on the recent Court of Appeal judgment in ASY!