The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Refugees Are 'Left Destitute On Our Streets' After Receiving Status, Says Charity

Recent data exposes the new Home Office policies for increasing the number of homeless refugees in UK cities by more than 80 per cent.

International Business Times UK · Jan 2, 2024

When is an asylum backlog not a backlog? When Rishi Sunak says he has ‘cleared it’

The Home Office claims to have fulfilled all its promises. Here’s what the numbers really tell us, says civil liberties writer Diane Taylor

The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024

Rishi Sunak engulfed by row over ‘false’ asylum statistics as 100,000 migrants still stuck in backlog

Labour accused the PM of ‘barefaced lie’ after figures showed 4,500 so-called legacy claims are still outstanding

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2024

‘I feel peaceful here’: how a charity found a welcoming home for a homeless refugee

Sleeping rough in a London park, Robel contacted Refugees at Home and was quickly matched with a host

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2023

UK Government deletes report calling asylum seeker barge ‘discriminatory’

THE UK Government has deleted a report calling the Bibby Stockholm asylum seeker barge "discriminatory"...

The National (Scotland) · Dec 29, 2023

Father stuck in Turkey applies for judicial review of Home Office’s handling of his case

Siyabonga Twala, who has a British son, was barred from returning to UK a year ago and remains in limbo in Ankara

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2023

Housing asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm barge is discriminatory, Home Office finds

The department’s equality impact assessment found keeping people on the barge breaks the 2010 Equality Act on the grounds of sex and age

The Independent UK · Dec 28, 2023

Sunak considers matter of Cleverly’s date rape joke ‘closed’, says No 10

Downing Street said it was ‘right’ that the Home Secretary had apologised for making the remarks during a ‘private conversation’

Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2023

Bibby Stockholm policy is discriminatory, Home Office report finds

Assessment says policy is ‘directly discriminating in relation to age [and] sex’ and says changes may have to be made

The Guardian - UK · Dec 27, 2023

Ministers urged to open up access to magic mushroom compound psilocybin for mental health researchers

Compound found in magic mushrooms could help alleviate symptoms for several mental health conditions

Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2023