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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is hiring up to 25 covert surveillance officers to snoop on benefit claimants.

The British Red Cross warns that vulnerable Ukrainian refugee families in the UK are four times more likely than Britons to end up homeless.

Newly released information paints a grim picture of life for many in the United Kingdom: food bank use, homelessness, and destitution are on the rise, putting people’s rights at risk.

A child plays outside the gates of a hotel used as temporary accommodation for families waiting for their asylum claims to be processed, in west London, February 16, 2021 © 2021 Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images Map UK CRD Map Summary The United Kingdom has historically provided housing support to people seeking asylum who arrive in the country and are not immediately able to provide for their own basic needs. In recent years this system has increasingly been plagued by serious deficiencies, i...

Children and their families seeking asylum in the United Kingdom increasingly face inadequate living conditions in government-provided temporary housing, affecting their health, well-being, and access to education.

The 100-page report, “‘I Felt So Stuck’: Inadequate Housing and Social Support for Families Seeking Asylum in the United Kingdom,” found that families seeking asylum face inhumane conditions in temporary housing, including rat infestation and mould. The families experience daily struggles to get food their children will eat, as well as mental and physical health problems and serious disruptions to their children’s education.

Families seeking asylum in the UK face inadequate living conditions in government-provided temporary housing, affecting their mental and phy...

Asylum-seeking families in the U.K. are living in poor conditions in government-provided temporary housing, harming their health and access to education...

"Our Network is needed more than ever before," a former MP and Minister of State at the Foreign Office told last weekends annual conference of the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales. In a talk entitled, Advocacy and Faith Action, Sir John Battle, an NJPN patron a...

<strong>Letters: </strong>A new report has found that our basic human rights are not being upheld by the British government, says <strong>Jess McQuail</strong>