People seeking asylum in the UK are often moved between various types of accommodation while their claims for protection are being processed. Here we outline how the system works and reveal the number ...

This roundup has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. Can asylum seekers claim benefits? Why are some ...

Mears, which provides services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and the north of England, made more profit than its contracts allow.

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel on 14 November. (PA) Shabana Mahmood will announce a ...

The Bell Hotel in Epping, just outside of London, gets no new bookings, yet is full every night. That’s because, since 2020, it has been used by the government to help house the thousands of asylum ...

The figurehead of the populist right in the United Kingdom has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and withdraw the country from international human rights treaties. But experts ...

Jonathan Darling receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is a trustee of the No Accommodation Network. Amid growing public concern over migration and a political threat from ...

Diego Garcia Rodriguez receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and a trustee at the LGBTIQ+ asylum charity Time To Be Out. The UK government ...

“For context, more than 141,500 people live in Blackpool. There are around 600 asylum seekers, mainly children and families, ...