Home Office

Asylum, Housing and homelessness

Call for inquiry after Glasgow stabbing incident at hotel

Karin Goodwin on June 27, 2020June 29, 2020

There must be an inquiry into decisions taken to move asylum seekers from flats to hotels without carrying out vulnerability checks, say refugee campaigners.

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Asylum, Housing and homelessness

Row erupts over firm’s briefings to MPs on asylum seeker housing

Billy Briggs, Karin Goodwin on June 25, 2020June 29, 2020

Organisations supporting asylum seekers have expressed concerns for the well-being of asylum seekers moved from flats into hotels in Glasgow.

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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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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Home Office

Asylum, Housing and homelessness

Call for inquiry after Glasgow stabbing incident at hotel

Asylum, Housing and homelessness

Row erupts over firm’s briefings to MPs on asylum seeker housing

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

Sub Club director’s family sold vacant site to hotel developer

Salmon farm rapped for toxic pesticide breaches

Adoption charities taking over Kinship carer service is ‘slap in the face’

Twenty children killed in Yemen since UK resumed selling bombs to Saudi Arabia