The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

When asylum seekers are attacked, don’t be surprised: the UK system ensures that will happen

The violence in Knowsley is symptomatic of a dysfunctional approach that makes vulnerable refugees even more vulnerable, says author Daniel Trilling

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2023

Labour to promise more neighbourhood police officers ‘like Catherine Cawood’

Yvette Cooper to cite BBC’s Happy Valley star in major policy speech on restoring community policing

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023

Labour promises to recruit an extra 13,000 community police in crime crackdown

The pledge would aim to assign named officers and PCSOs to every community and be backed up by new training and technology.

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023

Plans to house refugees at Pontins described as 'dehumanising'

Previous plans to house asylum seekers in a holiday camp were abandoned

Wales Online · Feb 14, 2023

Second British passports in demand as Home Office insists on 10-week renewal time

Exclusive: Refusal to shorten waiting times means holidaymakers are seeking additional travel documents

The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2023

After the cowardly attack on migrants in Knowsley, a warning to ministers: your words can start fires

Violence against asylum seekers does not happen in a vacuum, says Diane Taylor, who writes on human rights and racism

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023

Modern slavery survivors could be retrafficked in UK, charities warn

Salvation Army and other groups say without more resources potential victims could slip through the net

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023

‘Cruel and callous’: Families face years living apart if government changes visa rules

‘Families are already being separated with devastating consequences’

The Independent UK · Feb 12, 2023

The hotel near Manchester Airport where 'guests stay less than a week and then vanish'

A former employee spoke exclusively to the M.E.N.

Manchester Evening News · Feb 12, 2023

Teenager charged after violent protests outside asylum seeker hotel in Merseyside

Jarad Skeete, 19, of Irwell Close, Aigburth, Liverpool, was among 15 people arrested after a riot outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley

The Independent UK · Feb 12, 2023