I agree, I thought it was a good use of the barracks. As long as they have maintained well enough.
I agree, I thought it was a good use of the barracks. As long as they have maintained well enough.Better that than hotels , once it starts impacting the tourist trade I’m sure they’ll be a lot more than locals being annoyed.
If they are anything like Napier Barracks, they won't have been. In 2021 The High Court said that they were “inadequate accommodation” for asylum seekers and labelled the process for selecting people to be accommodated at the Barracks as “flawed and unlawful”. The Home Office claimed that following that judgement, "significant improvements' were made. In 2022 the All Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention visited and found that they had "failed to address the fundamental problems at the site". Look at the pictures on the link. If that's conditions after a "significant improvement" what were they like before?I agree, I thought it was a good use of the barracks. As long as they have maintained well enough.
OK yeah the one near me isn't great either.If they are anything like Napier Barracks, they won't have been. In 2021 The High Court said that they were “inadequate accommodation” for asylum seekers and labelled the process for selecting people to be accommodated at the Barracks as “flawed and unlawful”. The Home Office claimed that following that judgement, "significant improvements' were made. In 2022 the All Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention visited and found that they had "failed to address the fundamental problems at the site". Look at the pictures on the link. If that's conditions after a "significant improvement" what were they like before?
Napier Barracks: Asylum seeker site must close, MPs say
A report into the asylum site finds improvements directed by the High Court have not been made.www.bbc.co.uk
Which is said in the report I shared...It’s always been that way if a person marries a foreign spouse they have to prove they’re able to support them before they can come to the UK , there’s hundreds of women and children in Thailand and Russia that can’t join their uk husbands for exactly that reason.I’m sure their right to a family life is just as valid.
Yes, we do. The report also highlights some of the consequences which are then complained about by British citizens when it comes to migrants and refugees.We know there’s thousands of people affected it’s not a new thing.
York: Nurses' hotel accommodation to be used by asylum seekers
York Hospital says it is struggling to find alternative rooms for the nurses.www.bbc.com
Skilled people can apply for work visas ?Yes, we do. The report also highlights some of the consequences which are then complained about by British citizens when it comes to migrants and refugees.
It says policy restrictions can push people to rely on the state, do not protect children and limits the number of skilled people that are allowed into the country. All complaints which have been raised in this and the last thread when people discuss who we should prioritise when speaking of migrants and/or refugees or the supposed burden they place on this country.
Surely it must be better than the streets ? That’s all that’s on offer from the Irish government unless you have a child In tow .If they are anything like Napier Barracks, they won't have been. In 2021 The High Court said that they were “inadequate accommodation” for asylum seekers and labelled the process for selecting people to be accommodated at the Barracks as “flawed and unlawful”. The Home Office claimed that following that judgement, "significant improvements' were made. In 2022 the All Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention visited and found that they had "failed to address the fundamental problems at the site". Look at the pictures on the link. If that's conditions after a "significant improvement" what were they like before?
Napier Barracks: Asylum seeker site must close, MPs say
A report into the asylum site finds improvements directed by the High Court have not been made.www.bbc.co.uk
Yes, they have to meet certain criteria including a minimum salary, which the report I shared says is restrictive. I'm not sure why you're asking questions nor why I'm relaying this to you because it's all covered in the article I shared. I'll stop engaging now.Skilled people can apply for work visas ?
Worth noting that he’s facing criticism for this stanceMatteo Piantedosi, the interior minister, criticised parents who boarded the boat from Turkey with their families, saying: “Desperation can never justify travelling in conditions that endanger the lives of their children.”
It's the reality of not giving people safe passageThat’s the reality of people smugglers/ greed
What would you say is safe passage ?It's the reality of not giving people safe passage
The Guardian has obtained freedom of information data from the Home Office which reveals that 566 potential or confirmed victims of trafficking – from the UK and other countries – were categorised as “missing” between 2020 and 2022 after being referred to the national referral mechanism (NRM), which is designed to provide victims with safety and support.
The highest number was 258 victims in 2022, up from 232 in 2021 and 76 in 2020. The majority of the children who went missing were Albanian boys, and the majority of missing adults were Vietnamese men.
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“It is incredibly worrying that such significant numbers of victims are slipping through systems of support,” she said. “This data shows a real risk of retrafficking in the UK, even amongst people who report modern slavery and make steps towards recovery.
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“Sadly, most of the people who abscond are Vietnamese nationals and this seems to be linked to the extreme levels of psychological abuse that they are subjected to by their traffickers. When they arrive at our services they are especially wary of the authorities and worried about threats to their families.”
She added: “We are seeing some success with pilots of safehouses specifically for Vietnamese men, where we’ve found they respond well and settle better.”
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A Home Office spokesperson said: “We are committed to do everything we can in supporting genuine victims of modern slavery. Individuals who we consider to be potential victims of modern slavery are provided with appropriate support, including accommodation. There are many reasons people may leave accommodation provided for them, and it is testament to the world-leading support the UK provides that so few of those placed in that accommodation do so.”
As much as a third of the heavily cut UK overseas aid budget is being spent on housing refugees in the UK, the international development select committee says in a report today.
Describing the trend as unsustainable and unprecedented, the committee also finds UK aid spending per refugee has almost tripled, increasing from £6,700 in 2019 to £21,700 in 2021, according to the most recent three years of figures.
The select committee says it has been a political choice by the government to spend so much of the aid budget on refugees in the UK, and insists it is not required to do so by international rules defining legitimate aid
The committee members say they have hit a brick wall in getting information from the government about the precise current spending, but say it is known that more than £1bn of UK’s aid budget was spent on refugees in the UK in 2021, representing almost 10% of the total budget.
I haven't had time to look at this specific issue but as generality my wife used to work in scientific research funding and she frequently told me that the government used the overseas aid budget for all sorts of things that a reasonable person would conclude had nothing to do with overseas aid....This is flowing right over my head so someone else can look into it a bit more but from what I understand the money should be used for international aid projects and the rules only permit it to be used on refugees for their first year here. It also seems that the government is not cooperating with providing further information. It's also a bit unclear to me whether this includes asylum seekers or just refugees given that the headline uses refugees, the article sometimes throws in asylum claimants (but also distinguishes them from refugees) and then the end discusses Ukrainians and AfghansUp to a third of overseas aid budget used for housing refugees in UK, MPs report
Select committee accuses government of wilfully obscuring facts around ‘unsustainable’ trendwww.theguardian.com
I predict this going well and being totally lawfulThe legislation, first reported in the Times, is expected to make asylum claims inadmissible from those who travel to the UK on small boats.
It would involve a duty being placed on the home secretary to remove “as soon as reasonably practicable” anyone who arrives on a small boat to Rwanda or a “safe third country”. Arrivals will also be prevented from claiming asylum while in the UK, with plans also to ban them from returning once removed.
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