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Racist attacks and young people missing from refugee hotels are result of UK Government’s lack of action seven years ago
Racist attacks and young people missing from refugee hotels are result of UK Government’s lack of action seven years ago
Private firms are making increased profits as the government pays millions of pounds a day to put up asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learned
BBC News has been told 395 hotels are being used to house asylum seekers, as arrivals to the UK rose last year.
Documents show one booking agency used by the Home Office trebled its pre-tax profits from £2.1m to £6.3m in the 12 months up to February 2022.
The Home Office says the asylum system is under "incredible strain".
See the rest of this piece, here.
Documents show one booking agency used by the Home Office trebled its pre-tax profits from £2.1m to £6.3m in the 12 months up to February 2022.
The Home Office says the asylum system is under "incredible strain".
See the rest of this piece, here.
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Open letter by email to:
Stockport Council Leader RAPAR has recently learned of further human rights abuses in a SERCO-run hotel in Greater Manchester. As part of our on-going campaign - SERCO MUST GO! - we have written a letter to Stockport City Council leader to describe the hotel's conditions and violations in terms of education, health, food, maintenance and cleanliness, security, freedom of movement, and staff behaviour. This open letter is based on reports from the hotel's residents, RAPAR members. View the open letter here: Open letter from RAPAR to Stockport Council |
The open letter begins:
Dear Mr Hunter Profound concerns about safeguarding and security at the Home Office subcontracted SERCO-controlled hotel located within the Stockport Council boundary I write to you as a member of the Human Rights organisation RAPAR and a Greater Manchester resident. Over the last ten days several RAPAR members who are in the National Asylum and Support system have begun to share extremely disturbing information about safeguarding and security issues related to the Stockport located SERCO run hotel that houses people seeking asylum. (You will of course know the name and location of this hotel and appreciate that it is not appropriate for me to disclose it in this Open Letter from RAPAR, thereby creating further safeguarding issues. Its identity is included in my cover email to you.) |
If you would like to support or become involved in RAPAR's SERCO MUST GO! campaign, you can:
- Either email [email protected] or message our twitter account @raparuk or Instagram @rapar4housing
- Donate to RAPAR to help with the costs of this campaign: HOW TO HELP - RAPAR
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Reaching for Rumi’s family’s rights means stopping SERCO
A year ago on 15th August 2021, the Taliban took over control of Afghanistan. Following threats on his life, RAPAR member Rumi left just before the takeover. His wife Farishta and their middle child fled Afghanistan in January 2022. They had to leave their eldest and youngest children behind with family because they didn’t have the travel documents necessary to leave. The Home Office allocated them a SERCO-run hotel room in Manchester. |
RAPAR’s ongoing campaign to STOP SERCO has been working since 2021.
See The Guardian and The Mill for media coverage of the appalling conditions and rights violations in the SERCO-run Manchester hotel, and here for RAPAR's SERCO must go! campaign. See also this leaflet for info. on for how you can help stop SERCO and help Rumi and many other families to achieve rights. |
Can't click through at the moment? That's fine. Here's what you can do to support Rumi and this campaign.
- Invite Rumi and other campaign members to speak at your event/ group/ trade union meeting, etc. Please either email [email protected] or message our twitter account @raparuk or Instagram @rapar4housing
- Donate to RAPAR to help with the costs of this campaign: HOW TO HELP - RAPAR
Join RAPAR's protest on Saturday the 30th of July 2022, 1pm to 3pm, Piccadilly Gardens.
See more here. |
SERCO must go!
Refugees living in SERCO managed hotel in Manchester need a safe way to raise their concerns. In an open letter to Fiona Ledden, RAPAR calls upon Manchester City Council to take action in the face of serious safeguarding concerns regarding refugee residents currently living in a South Manchester hotel. Click here to read the full open letter. Read this coverage on the story from The Mill. |
