There is “little to show” for the significant amount of money the government has spent attempting to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda and to house thousands of others in barges and former...
Asylum in the UK is a government problem and human catastrophe. Local services are under pressure, and vulnerable people are the biggest losers. PF investigates.
Long-term funding and better Home Office communication is needed to improve work to house asylum seekers in England, according to the officers leading local responses.
Clive Betts, chair of Parliament's Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee has urged the government to provide additional funding to help authorities mitigate services pressures stemming from...
Local authorities in the UK will receive additional funding to help with the cost of resettling Afghan refugees, following the recent coup in the nation.
The government is on track to fulfill its pledge to settle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 after the Home Office announced it had secured the necessary places with councils and devolved...
Senior local government figures have called for greater national co-ordination of support for unaccompanied children and young people who arrive in the UK ahead of a visit to the “Jungle...
Facts and figures from April 2016’s Public Finance magazine, including town vs country priorities, interest rates, Northern Powerhouse prospects and Danish asylum seizures
Up to 20,000 Syrian refugees could enter the UK in the next five years under a government scheme. How do councils manage the arrival of refugees, and do they receive sufficient funding from central...
Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
The government has been urged to create a new Controlled Migration Fund to provide additional support to areas that have experienced high levels of migration and to prepare areas that may take in...
The chair of the communities and local government select committee has called on the government to clarify the funding that will be available to councils that accommodate Syrian refugees.
Councils have said they are ready to play their part in accepting more refugees from the crisis in Syria after Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed plans to take in “thousands more”.
