“We Wanted Workers, But We Got People Instead” Our Submission to the Home Affairs Committee On the 27th of October, we submitted to the Home Affairs Committee’s consultation: Work-Based Immigration. This allowed us to discuss at length how immigration policy, when used as a fix for weak domestic training, shifts the cost onto migrant workers.
Legal Justice is Migrant Justice Our Submission to the Legal Aid Reform Consultation On the 13th October, we submitted to the Scottish Government’s Legal Aid Reform Consultation. This allowed us to discuss in depth how a poorly functioning legal aid system is failing everyone in Scotland, even though, on paper, it is the nation’s foremost
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What’s the Connection? Asylum Support, Local Authorities and Taxpayers The Home Office has done a very poor job of building public knowledge about the asylum system, specifically how it functions and how it is funded. This vacuum has been filled by assumptions, anecdotes, and, increasingly, political narratives that bear little relation to the evidence. We
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What Does the Data Say? Insight into the Home Office Immigration System Statistics Release (YE June 2026) Our briefing pulls together the latest Home Office immigration statistics and breaks down what they mean for the asylum system as a whole, for Scotland, and with a particular focus on the North East. We’re planning to make
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Employment Support for the Excluded Our Submission to the Work and Pensions Committee On the 31st of August, we submitted to the Work and Pensions Committee’s consultation: ‘Local delivery of employment support‘. This presented us with the opportunity to discuss at length how migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) are disadvantaged in terms
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Scrutinising the Immigration and Asylum Bill Our Submission to the Human Rights (Joint Committee) On the 1st of September 2026, we submitted formal evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ scrutiny of the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026. In this submission we set out why we do not consider the Bill compatible with the
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No Recourse to Public Facts NRPF, The Media, and Mis/Dis/Malinformation Public understanding of migration is, by most available measures, badly out of step with reality. Polling consistently finds that a majority of the British public fail to agree on or identify objectively true statements and trends in the migration domain; for example, most believe net
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Papers, Power and Control: What is Immigration Abuse? Gender-based abuse is primarily understood through the lens of physical and verbal threats, violence and disruption. Increasingly, the concepts of psychological and economic abuse are being accepted into the general public’s understanding of abuse and the behaviours associated; however, widespread understanding and adoption of these terms still
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Protect Article 8 Our Submission to the United Nations’ OHCHR On the 15th of June 2026, the No Recourse North East Partnership responded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ call for input regarding children’s right to family life in migration and asylum policies. We view the right to family life,
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Opposing Asylum Reforms Our Submission to the Home Office On 4 June 2026, we submitted our response to the Home Office consultation on reforming asylum support and enforcing family returns. We strongly oppose all the proposals and believe that conversations had on the asylum system should focus on expanding support and increasing the dignity of
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