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Refugee Council urges UK to introduce special visas in effort to stop deaths in the Channel

Record number of deaths in 2024 leads to call for safe and legal routes for people to travel to UK to stop them resorting to smugglers

The Guardian - UK

Government must say how many die attempting small boat crossings – charity

Research by the Refugee Council suggested that more migrants died in the Channel in 2024 than in the previous three years combined.

The Independent UK

MPs on notice as key review targets 'entrenched' racism

Australian leaders are being urged to set an example to eliminate racism through a national plan involving sweeping legal and behavioural changes.

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Asylum backlog clearance could grant refugee status to 62,000 migrants

The Refugee Council predicts over 62,000 migrants may be granted asylum in the UK as efforts to reduce the backlog progress

Evening Standard

Top Tories and Trump helped create ‘overt racism’ in UK, says Labour minister

‘Toxic discourse’ against asylum seekers gave ‘yellow flashing light’ to racists, Angela Eagle tells the Labour conference

The Guardian - UK

Child refugees using people smugglers to reach family in UK, report warns

Delays in government family reunion processes see stranded children crossing the Channel in small boats, charities’ report says

The Guardian - UK

Lone children at risk of deportation to Rwanda after being classified as adults, says charity

Refugee Council issues warning after children wrongly issued with notices of intent by Home Office

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‘I need mum and dad here’: the charity helping young Afghan footballers reunite with relatives

The Refugee Council is welcoming those who fled the Taliban and providing legal advice on resettlement in the UK• Donate to our charity appeal here

The Guardian - UK

Ministers urged to abandon Rwanda policy and Illegal Migration Act

Amnesty International and Asylum Aid said measures preventing refugees claiming asylum in the UK should be scrapped.

The Independent UK

Let’s be clear on children seeking asylum

Letter: Home Office figures about the number of age-disputed asylum seekers who are found to be adults are misleading, writes Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council

The Guardian - UK

Child asylum seekers in UK forced to share hotel rooms with adults

Concerns raised over possible misclassification of children as adults as Home Office’s new hotel ‘maximisation’ policy begins

The Guardian - UK

Three-quarters of small boat arrivals would be granted asylum, study suggests

The Refugee Council says the Government’s own figures counter the narrative that most people crossing the Channel do not require protection.

The Independent UK

‘Refugees being driven to homelessness by shorter eviction notice periods’

The Refugee Council and other charities have written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Housing Secretary Michael Gove.

The Independent UK

We know people seeking asylum die in the Channel, but callous hardline policy kills them too

When you get behind the public soundbites, you hear an ugly ideology that has scant sympathy for those who risk it all, or even die, says Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council

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The Independent UK

Ruling over child asylum seekers in hotels ‘landmark day for children’s rights’

Several charities welcomed the High Court’s ruling on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Test ‘refugee visa’ to curb Channel crossings, urges charity

The idea is one of a series put forward by the Refugee Council.

The Guardian - UK

The illegal migration bill has passed, and here’s what will happen: children lost, abused and exploited

The new law will not act as the deterrent the UK government says it will – it just puts more vulnerable people in harm’s way, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

Evening Standard

Home Office must process asylum claim ‘every four minutes’ to hit backlog target, Refugee Council claims

The Refugee Council suggests the Prime Minister’s pledge to curb the backlog by the end of the year ‘is unlikely’

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The Guardian - UK

Child refugees could develop PTSD if locked up by UK, medical bodies say

Letter sent to home secretary warns tens of thousands of children could be locked up indefinitely if illegal migration bill passes

The Guardian - UK

Cram them into a shoebox: that’s Britain’s new anti-migrant strategy – and it won’t work

Refugees are right to protest about being a plan which forces them into unsuitable accommodation. It’s more cruelty by design, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

The Independent UK

Afghan refugees ‘evictions plan’ deeply concerning, say campaigners

It comes after reports suggested Afghan refugees are set to be forced out of hotels as part of new Government plans.

The Independent UK

Staggering cost of detaining and accommodating migrants under controversial illegal migration bill revealed

More than 250,000 people, including up to 45,000 children, could have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible, a charity says

The Independent UK

Small boats bill ‘will force hundreds of thousands into immigration limbo’, charity claims

Up to 260,000 people could have their asylum claims rejected in first three years of small boats bill, Refugee Council says

Wales Online

Cost of detaining and accommodating migrants 'could hit £9bn in three years’

Charity says more than 250,000 people will have their claim for asylum denied with 10,000 sent to Rwanda in each of the first three years

The Guardian - UK

‘Draconian’ migration bill could leave tens of thousands destitute or locked up

Refugee Council figures reveal potential human and economic cost of government’s illegal migration bill

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