🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.

When 1 in 3 of the 4.3 million children living in poverty are children in migrant households, the government just will not be able to cut poverty levels without action for this group of kids

Big news! We’ve secured a debate in Parliament on child poverty next week. We need your help to get your MP in the room to speak out about No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), one of the most harmful policies facing migrant families. 📝 Email your MP now: act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...

One provider out, another with its own chequered history in. Meanwhile, costs continue to climb. This Times article cites @ippr.bsky.social research: annual costs per person have risen from £17k to 41k since 2020. ⏳2026 is a critical opportunity to break free from a failing system. bit.ly/4hGnWTW

This time last week I spoke at the Home Affairs Select Committee about fixing our asylum accommodation system. We urgently need to shift power regionally and locally, improve safeguarding, and move away from mass sites - towards community solutions that work for everyone.

ICYMI: See also this wonderful write up of our report in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Last week, @josephinewy.bsky.social and I published a report on childcare - specifically, how migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) are locked out of childcare support, pushing them deeper into poverty and holding back their children. 🧵👇

I wrote a blog about the UK’s citizenship & settlement policies - and how both the Conservatives & Labour are making decisions that will trap people in precarity without solving anything. A quick thread on why this matters 🧵👇

Great report from @savechildrenuk.bsky.social & @ippr.bsky.social highlighting urgent need for early years system to intentionally target closing the disadvantage gap. Key to this is be removing immigration restrictions, otherwise some of poorest children will continue to be left out

🚨 NEW: 2/3 of England's poorest families are missing out on childcare, analysis by @ippr.bsky.social and Save the Children has found. Without urgent changes, free childcare expansion could miss the families who need it most. Childcare should be for every child, not just those who can afford it.

New report on childcare from @jodier.bsky.social and @jamie-ohalloran.bsky.social. Highlights that many families are excluded from essential childcare provision, including those with no recourse to public funds. Look out for detailed research from @josephinewy.bsky.social on this in the new year!

The asylum stats reiterate the fact that too many people are still stuck in woeful hotels. This is costing the gov't a hell of a lot and is no good at all for people living in them. We need local & regional bodies to be put in the driving seat - getting people out of hotels and into communities.

📣New briefing📣 "If one government can come up with this policy, then another one can too": The ongoing impact of the Rwanda detentions in Greater Manchester gmiau.org/new-briefing...

This ep of File on 4 is well worth a listen. It features people who feared for their lives when rioters targeted hotels in the summer & highlights @ippr.bsky.social analysis that finds the cost of asylum accom has more than doubled pp in just 5 years from £17k to £41k. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today is equal pay day - the day when women in the UK effectively work for free for the rest of the year, because of the gender pay gap 🙃 To mark the occasion, I've made 'Women of the North' starter pack of the incredible northern women you need to follow... go.bsky.app/P6Hu5Qk

The NAO reports that the Home Office 'cut corners' and - in the process - spent WAY over the odds on a building that was completely unfit for use as accommodation. I'd like to say I'm surprised, but alas... www.itv.com/news/2024-11...

An influential left-leaning think tank urges ministers to overhaul the asylum seeker accommodation system @ippr.bsky.social wants local bodies to have more control, warning that the set-up of the Home Office working w/ private providers like Serco isn't working www.politicshome.com/news/article...

📢 | NEW REPORT: Asylum accommodation costs have surged, with billions spent on inadequate housing—wasting public funds and failing policy goals. Our report shows how ending outsourcing and empowering regional bodies can cut costs and improve conditions. www.ippr.org/articles/tra...

A new @ippr.bsky.social report urges the govt to take “urgent” action to change the provision of asylum seeker accommodation away from private providers "It will require bolder action than maybe feels comfortable, but it is important," report author Dr Lucy Mort told @politicshome.bsky.social