Home Office

Asylum, Housing and homelessness

Call for probe after man found dead in Covid-19 asylum seeker hotel

Karin Goodwin on May 10, 2020May 15, 2020

A 30-year-old Syrian man died after moving to a hotel used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Asylum, Health, Housing and homelessness, Human rights

Asylum seekers’ lives ‘put at risk’ by decision to move them to hotels

Karin Goodwin on April 22, 2020April 23, 2020

Hundreds of asylum seekers have been moved out of their flats and into Glasgow hotels where they are unable to isolate amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Asylum, Health, Society

Increase allowance for asylum seekers, charities tell UK government

Billy Briggs on April 10, 2020April 12, 2020

A charity in Glasgow that counsels torture survivors is among 60 organisations urging the UK government to increase the asylum support allowance during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Environment

Animal lab sanctioned after scores of rats crushed to death

Billy Briggs on February 26, 2020March 1, 2020

Animal research firm sanctioned by the UK government after being accused of leaving more than a hundred rats inside an industrial crusher by mistake.

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Asylum

Torture survivors left with no heating due to voucher system

Billy Briggs on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020

Torture survivors living on £5 a day in Glasgow are being forced to travel for miles to get power to heat their homes, according to support workers.

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Society, Health

Scottish drug activists urged to break law to save lives

Karin Goodwin on September 4, 2019September 5, 2019

A leading drug activist has urged Scots to engage in widespread civil disobedience to reduce the number of people dying of drug overdoses.

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Arms trade

Serco slammed for plans to attend arms fair while evicting asylum seekers

Billy Briggs on August 20, 2019August 22, 2019

Serco, a firm evicting hundreds of asylum seekers from their homes in Glasgow, will be exhibiting at a controversial arms trade show.

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Asylum, Housing and homelessness, Human rights

Hundreds of asylum seekers will be made homeless as Serco restarts evictions

Karin Goodwin on June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Serco's new lock changes will see about 300 people made homeless across Glasgow within months, with charities claiming they were given no warning.

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Asylum, Housing and homelessness, Society

‘Hostile environment’: Theresa May’s policy driving refugees into destitution

Billy Briggs on May 29, 2019May 29, 2019

The UK's so-called 'hostile environment' immigration policy in the UK has led to torture victims being left destitute, a charity claims.

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Home Office

Asylum, Health, Housing and homelessness, Human rights

Asylum seekers’ lives ‘put at risk’ by decision to move them to hotels

Asylum, Health, Society

Increase allowance for asylum seekers, charities tell UK government

Environment

Animal lab sanctioned after scores of rats crushed to death

Asylum

Torture survivors left with no heating due to voucher system

Society, Health

Scottish drug activists urged to break law to save lives

Arms trade

Serco slammed for plans to attend arms fair while evicting asylum seekers

Asylum, Housing and homelessness, Human rights

Hundreds of asylum seekers will be made homeless as Serco restarts evictions

Asylum, Housing and homelessness, Society

‘Hostile environment’: Theresa May’s policy driving refugees into destitution

MSPs urged to learn from Skye nursing home Covid-19 outbreak

Do not give Ineos £500m Covid bail-out, say campaigners

Pressure mounts on ministers as 87 beavers confirmed killed in Tayside

Rape charity demands changes after judge condemns trial