1. Access to urgent & immediately necessary care

The NHS’ guidance issued in 2013 is still valid and provides the framework for establishing when urgent and immediately necessary treatment must be provided to overseas visitors who do not have an entitlement to free care and cannot pay for it.

The information below is a summary of the key paragraphs from the guidance on the issue. The full report is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/254530/ovs_visitors_guidance_oct13a.pdf Continue reading “NHS services – inaccessible asylum process – dispersal”

A new Home Office rule could force asylum seekers to travel to Liverpool if they want to submit new evidence for their case. What’s more, there won’t be any help for those who can’t afford the journey.  Sign our petition to fight this.

What’s changed?

At Refugee Action, we work with people who’ve experienced the very worst of the asylum system. Many are exploited by inadequate legal advisors. They are disbelieved by the Home Office. And they are left destitute and homeless, even when they’ve later been found to have a genuine need for protection.

In a system that’s so tough to navigate, the right to make a fresh claim – to present new evidence that will help your case, which you might not have originally had or known was relevant – is vital to ensuring people’s safety. But for many people seeking protection, that right is about to be taken away.
Continue reading “Call for fairness not fares in our asylum system”

“That which is morally wrong cannot be politically right” 1822 Quaker  Faith and Practice 23.26

Enforced destitution is being used as an instrument of immigration control and, increasingly, of other government policies which primarily affect the most vulnerable. Quakers believe that there is that of God in every person and strive towards equality of respect. Refusing people any legal means of survival or dignity is denying the divine and humanity, which can never be justified.  While we being mindful of settled residents struggling with poverty and destitution because of austerity pay rates and austerity benefit policies, we should neither ignore nor blame those who have sought sanctuary in the U.K. Continue reading “QARN Statement on Destitution”