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February 1, 2022
GOOD NEWS! Some recent successes from our advocacy and policy work.
It’s no great secret that positive change can be a frustratingly slow process, and there is…
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January 28, 2022
Support payments for asylum seekers living in poverty to increase by all of 17p a day, decides Home Office
The outcome of an annual review by the Home Office into support payments given to people…
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January 28, 2022
Changes to asylum & resettlement policy and practice in response to COVID-19
We’ve been calling on the government to protect people seeking asylum and refugees at risk…
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January 25, 2022
Government plans will “all but destroy” main safe route out of conflict for women and children at risk, warns Refugee Council
Up to 17,500[1] mainly vulnerable women and children who have become separated from loved ones…
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January 19, 2022
Refugee Council welcomes important judgment relating to age assessments
The Refugee Council today (Wednesday 19 January 2022) warmly welcomes a judgment made in the High…
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January 6, 2022
Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) announcement – Refugee Council response
Following the announcement in the House of Commons today to open the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme…
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December 20, 2021
Lack of safe routes leaves Afghan refugees to make dangerous journeys to UK, warns Refugee Council
The failure of the Government to implement the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and other safe routes…
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December 9, 2021
As the Nationality and Borders Bill leaves the House of Commons, what next for refugee protection?
The Nationality and Borders Bill was voted through by MPs this week and will start being…
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December 7, 2021
The importance of access to immigration services for refugee integration
Background to the issue Refugees in the UK have to go through a number of hurdles…
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November 30, 2021
Duke of Cambridge makes special visit to meet Afghan refugees and Refugee Council staff in Yorkshire
The visit from the future monarch takes place the same day that Councils in the region…
