Weekend news round-up 12 May
House prices have almost trebled during the Blair decade, according to the FT house price index. The paper also predicts another interest rate rise this year. The Independent reports that…
Tag: asylum seekers
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Road to destitution
IT SOUNDS LIKE something from the 1960s but the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit is actually part of the government’s response to the Barker report, an attempt to ‘strengthen…
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Lunchtime news May 3
The first 15 Wimpey homes designed by star architect Richard Rogers have been unveiled in Milton Keynes. The development includes two, three, four and five-bedroom homes in ten different designs.…
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Britain should stop locking up child asylum seekers
England’s children’s commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green criticised the government’s policy of arresting children of failed asylum seekers and holding them in a detention centre before detention. He said that almost…
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Asylum-seeker charities ‘playing the system’
Immigration minister Phil Woolas has attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them of undermining the law and ‘playing the system’. Woolas described the legal professionals…
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Asylum seekers should be given support
Asylum seekers refused permission to live in the UK but unable to return to their country of origin should be allowed to work and access health care, a report by…
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New Bill shakes up rights to citizenship
The new Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill was published yesterday in Parliament. The Bill limits full access to benefits and social housing to citizens and permanent residents and any foreign…
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Asylum seekers on £1 a day
Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are living in the UK in a ‘twilight zone’ of extreme poverty, no housing and no right to work. A report from the refugee…
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Asylum rules donât work
Research has suggested that the tough policies designed to push asylum seekers out of the country by removing their support is simply forcing them to live on the streets, surviving…
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Lunchtime news May 22
Yesterday’s planning white paper rejected changes in policy on the green belt – one of the key concerns raised by Kate Barker in her independent review of land use planning…