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IA271 to Minsk, OS52 to Vienna and Europe's asylum dilemma IRAQI AIRWAYS flight IA271 from Baghdad to Minsk was a surprisingly popular service. The four-hour trip from Iraq, an unstable [...]

A country that receives few asylum-seekers is determined to have even fewer STILL, SUNNY weather in southern England brings the smell of sausages from barbecues, the off-key tinkling of ice-cream [...]

Abstract The problematization of asylum has detrimentally impacted on the provision of support for asylum seekers in host countries. The threat of destitution has become instrumental in restrictive asylum policies [...]

The UK's asylum system involves the 'deliberate use' of inhumane treatment against asylum seekers, MPs and Lords said last week. The joint committee on human rights said ministers were practising [...]

To mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October, and as Mind's celebrates its 60th anniversary, Prabjit Korotana salutes the gains that have been made in treating mental health patients [...]

A successful populist attack on Swiss asylum and immigration laws SOME three years after he joined the government, Switzerland's right-wing justice minister, Christoph Blocher, has finally made a mark. Around [...]

The Scottish and UK governments must pay 'urgent attention' to the lack of suitable accommodation for young asylum seekers arriving in Scotland, a major report claims. Many unaccompanied children, especially [...]

Local authorities have a duty to provide this country's estimated 6,000 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children with care and support. On the whole, this has fallen to councils in south east England [...]

Asmall number of councils in England could take over the care of all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under a government review that campaigners fear is not child-centred and is driven by [...]

Adults who claim asylum at immigration screening units will be electronically tagged. Immigration minister Tony McNulty said it would discourage unfounded asylum applications. It will be applied to all adult [...]

The delegation was led by the Chairman of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee Jean-Marie Cavada (Liberals, France). After meeting with Spanish officials in Madrid on December 7, MEPs went [...]

The Home Office has begun an evaluation of the policy that can lead to failed asylum seekers having their children taken into care. The evaluation of section nine of the [...]

Social services directors have written to councils outlining their opposition to the policy that can lead to the children of failed asylum seekers being taken into care. The Association of [...]

An attempt by the government to overturn a court ruling that it breached the human rights of three asylum seekers failed last week. It had been forced to revise section [...]

Staff at an immigration removal centre are allowed to routinely carry weapons. The chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers, has now called for an end to the 'intimidating' practice of [...]

A mother and son have become the second family to be evicted under the government's policy that can lead to the children of failed asylum seekers being taken into care. [...]

Eleven local authorities have called on the Home Office to rethink its policy of taking the children of failed asylum seekers into care if they refuse to leave the country. [...]

Commissioner Frattini said a joint action plan for rescuing immigrants in life-threatening situations at sea or in the desert would be unveiled 'before the summer break'. There will be joint [...]

Rising numbers of unaccompanied children seeking asylum are having their ages disputed by the Home Office, resulting in them being treated as adults, the Refugee Council has told Community Care. [...]

The government has pledged to tackle Northern Ireland's practice of detaining asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers in prisons. Lord Rooker, the minister of state for regeneration and regional development, [...]

The government's proposal for some failed asylum seekers to do community work in order to qualify for housing could breach the European Convention on Human Rights, peers and MPs have [...]

Nothing better illustrated the populist style of this home secretary than the law introduced to deny asylum seekers support if they were too slow to declare their intentions upon arrival [...]

The government has announced a climbdown on its policy of denying asylum seekers support unless they make their claim within three days of arriving in the UK. Under the revised [...]

Refugees will be at greater risk of persecution under the new EU asylum system, it is claimed. The new law, to be adopted by member states, is intended to set [...]

The government suffered a setback in its reform of the asylum and immigration system this week when the Lords voted to increase the time for unsuccessful asylum seekers to appeal. [...]

Members of the audience at Community Care LIVE's first Question Time were united last week in their condemnation of government proposals to remove the children of failed asylum seekers who [...]

The Home Office is considering forcibly removing unaccompanied minors whose asylum claims have failed, Community Care has learned. A Home Office spokesperson said that no decisions have been taken, but [...]

AHigh Court challenge to the government's decision to block state support to asylum seekers from the 10 accession countries will take place next week. A judicial review is being sought [...]

Proposals to prevent failed asylum seekers and others with no legal right to be in the UK accessing free care from GPs are being launched this week. The government consultation [...]

Thousands of asylum seeker families who could be eligible for a government scheme granting indefinite leave to remain in the UK are still awaiting a decision more than a month [...]

No asylum seekers from the 10 EU accession countries supported by the National Asylum Support Service were made homeless over the weekend after a last minute reprieve. The government had [...]

The government stands accused of causing a crisis for local authorities through its decision to deny support to asylum seekers from the new EU countries. Despite warnings from councils and [...]

More than 2,500 asylum seekers from the 10 EU accession countries could be made homeless overnight next week, the Refugee Council has warned. Asylum seekers from the accession countries will [...]