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A new city: supporting asylum seekers and refugees in London
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 28p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper presents background information on asylum seekers in London; looks at London’s continuing role in supporting them; providing housing for asylum seekers in London (including costs, grant aided provision, and suitability of accommodation; supporting unaccompanied minors; improving access to other services; promoting settlement; and action points for improving services.
Another country: implementing dispersal under the immigration and asylum Act 1999
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 110p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report offering guidance on how to manage dispersal of asylum seekers at a local level and how to provide appropriate services for refugees, highlighting both good practice and problems with current service delivery. It also identifies the steps that central government could take to strengthen the national framework of policy guidance, funding and performance monitoring.
Half way home: an analysis of the variation in the cost of supporting asylum seekers
- Authors:
- AUDIT COMMISSION, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Local authorities that provide housing and subsistence to asylum seekers are able to recover their costs from a central government grant. Some underspend and some overspend this grant. This paper recommends a move away from a flat rate grant system to one that recognises the differences between average housing costs around the country. It also recommends a standard approach to subsistence and administration, so that asylum seekers, wherever they may be, can expect the same standard of care.