As the govt considers further changes to support for people seeking asylum, it’s vital they consult survivors and experts & consider the impact on vulnerable groups. We hope this challenge helps ensure that happens.

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The previous government changed its policy at the start of 2024 making it harder for charities like ours to prevent survivors from being forced to live in large accommodation sites or to share rooms with strangers.

The current government continues to defend this policy change. 3/4

Trafficking & torture survivors are often traumatised, isolated. Safety & security is vital to their recovery. But since 2019, the Home Office has been placing them in ‘prison-like’ asylum camps or in overcrowded hotels, forcing them to share rooms with strangers which can be re-traumatising. 2/4

We constantly help people we support to volunteer in various places, from charity shops to community gardens. Often, this is while they wait in legal limbo & forced poverty. But to make a person’s long term legal status conditional on their ability to volunteer is an insult to people’s goodwill. 2/2

We have repeatedly shown that housing people at ex-military sites like RAF Wethersfield & Napier Barracks causes profound harm.

Given the wealth of clinical evidence, we are deeply alarmed at the government’s plan to house people in two new ex-military sites.

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"The Home Office has become heavily reliant on the costly use of hotels for asylum accommodation."

This needs to change. For-profit companies earn millions in taxpayer-subsidised profit, while deliberately overseeing & delivering a housing system which dehumanises & often re-traumatises people. 4/4