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This article is more than 1 month old The abhorrent ‘direct provision’ will end, but there is still no guarantee that people such as me will be treated as fully human ‘Under the system of direct provision, the Irish state hired private contractors to accommodate and feed asylum seekers,.’ Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA ‘Under the system of direct provision, the Irish state hired private contractors to accommodate and feed asylum seekers,.’ Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Tue 2 Mar 2021 05.00 EST Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 07.54 EST In 2000 the Irish government in...

Scottish parents are set to receive £125 to help feed their children over the Easter school holidays. Here's what you need to know and how to apply. Scottish parents are set to receive £125 to help feed their children over the Easter school holidays. The payment will be made to parents and guardians of eligible children between March 19 and March 22. If you already receive free school meals then money will be automatically paid into your bank account. During lockdown, councils have been paying £25 per fortnight to support families who are on free school meals while they are learnin...

Cambridgeshire County Council will be providing vouchers to all children who usually receive free school meals for use during February half-term.

Birmingham Fraudster Given Prison Sentence Deliberately 'targeted' vulnerable couple 5 February 2021 A 69 year-old woman who preyed on a couple seeking help with their immigration status, has been given a 19 month prison sentence for fraud. Mrs Zabun Nissa of Herrick Road, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, contrary to Sections 1 and 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 at Birmingham Crown Court in November 2020. On her return to the court on 3 February she was given details of her sentence. Mrs Nissa befriended the couple , and claimed to work at Birmingham Airport’s immigration de...

Last modified on Sat 6 Feb 2021 00.10 EST An asylum seeker and victim of torture held in a controversial army barracks has been urgently rehoused following a high court ruling, lawyers have said. In the second such move this week, a high court judge ordered the relocation of the man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, from Napier barracks near Folkestone, Kent, into hotel accommodation. The privately run barracks has been used to accommodate about 400 asylum seekers since September and last month experienced a significant Covid-19 outbreak, affecting at least a quarter of the men ins...