Our newest NRPF house for LGBTI asylum seekers is located in Leeds, and we are taking referrals. Any lesbian, gay, bi, trans or intersex asylum seekers with no recourse to public funds can be referred to our housing (or self refer) by contacting [email protected] Micro Rainbow works with LGBTI migrants, providing housing support in Manchester, […]
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Service update: PAFRAS- Last drop-in of 2020 – 23rd December
The last PAFRAS drop-in of the year will be on 23rd December, 10-12, in St Aidan’s Church Hall. Sadly there won’t be a party this year but we will be offering our usual services: casework, mental health support and food parcels. We’ll also have some Christmas presents for clients who have children. We promise Christmas […]
Christmas Food Aid – 1st Edition: 11th December 2020
What? Volunteer befriending training When? Monday 7th December 5.45-7pm. Where? TBC If you want to join us but haven’t let us know, please email [email protected] so she can give you more information and a link. Here are 2 Documents detailing where vulnerable people can access food support over the Christmas period. To find provision that […]
Home Office reply to Cllr Blake, 1st December 2020
You’ll remember Cllr Blake’s excellent letter expressing concern over Home Office Evictions during lockdown. Curiously, the Home Office reply does not address any of the particular concerns raised by Cllr Blake directly, and instead restates the Home Office’s current position, before ending on this hopeful note: “I hope you agree that the best […]
Urban House (Initial Accomodation in Wakefield) reopening- a one page summary October 2020
via Katie at NACCOM
Political Support from LCC to help halt Home Office evictions
An excellent letter here from the Cllr Blake – leader of LCC, addressed to The Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. We’re exceptionally proud of the the support shown by LCC, and for the lobbying of LMP members who have been lobbying hard behind the scenes. However, given recent […]
Update on Home Office cessations (Asylum Accommodation) – 16th October 2020
On negative cessations, we’ve been informed that if there is a safe route of return and there are no appeal rights outstanding then it is the Home Office’s view that they will consider ceasing support. It is understood that further direction from ministers is expected. You may have seen that this matter was in the […]
Please discourage people from sleeping/sheltering in bins
LCC have issued new guidance to Commercial Waste Contractors, after a third person was found taking shelter in a bin in Leeds. We are not aware of the immigration status of any of the three people concerned, but with no emergency housing options for destitute asylum seekers in Leeds, their health and safety remains a […]
Local Authority support to destitute asylum seekers with NRPF “will be scaled down and end”
Jon Beech from LASSN writes: Regular readers will remember the post we did on Homelessness in Leeds and the potential impact that the end of Everybody In programme would have on destitute asylum seekers with No Recourse to Public Funds. Since then various LMP members have been asking Leeds City Council for a statement of […]
Your help needed: joint letter to Leeds City Council to prevent evictions from asylum accommodation into homelessness – deadline 6th October 2020
By Mary Brandon on 5th October 2020 in Activism & Campaigning, Destitution & Housing, Policy & Research
Dear LMP members and readers, The Home Office recently announced and commenced plans to resume eviction proceedings for those who have been refused asylum. Without immediate action, people across our communities could be forced into street homelessness and destitution in a matter of days and weeks. This would not be acceptable under normal circumstances, but […]
NRPF Network – new website Sept 22nd 2020
When we got an email eariler today, telling us the links to NRPFNetwork site were broken, our hearts sank. Had they not been paying their web-hosting costs? Had Islington Council (the people who host them) decided to pull the plug? Turns out, the good people from the NRPF Network have been using all that working-from-home […]
Leeds Council awarded £1.3Million from “Next Steps” Homeless Fund
Leeds City Council have been allocated £1,339,180.00 via the Next Steps programme https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/next-steps-accommodation-programme-guidance-and-proposal-templates It’s not 100% clear what this means for people with NRPF in Leeds. Everyone who has needed somewhere to stay has been accommodated by LCC since mid-March 2020, and LCC officers have repeatedly expressed their aspiration to provide emergency accommodation to everyone […]