This briefing looks at the basic needs provided for by asylum support payments, with reference to the Home Office’s ‘Report on the allowances paid to asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers: 2020’, and most pressing issues that have been identified by the Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) in relation to our clients.
The Helen Bamber Foundation has considerable experience of the impact
On 24th March 2021, the government published a "New Plan for Immigration", setting out its proposals for changes to nationality, immigration and asylum law. We are extremely concerned about the whole of the New Plan for Immigration, the approach it takes and the harmful rhetoric used throughout.
This report draws together information regarding the interaction between disability and claims under the 1951 Refugee Convention. It also briefly looks at subsidiary forms of legal protection. This report has been prepared based on legal and clinical experience within England and Wales in particular, but may be of wider relevance to those working to apply the Refugee Convention in other jurisdictions.
Thousands of people seeking asylum are currently accommodated in initial
This paper sets out an area where the Home Office’s
Introduction This paper explores some of HBF’s experiences in relation
In September 2020 the Home Office established refugee camps in
In October 2020, we wrote to Nadine Dorries MP, the
The scope of this response is discreet and relates to
We have extensive experience in assisting our clients to ensure
We have extensive experience in assisting our clients to apply
