Refugee Action has launched a campaign report Slipping Through the Cracks: how Britain’s asylum system fails the most vulnerable. Analysing 315 cases of people applying for section 98 and section 95 support over the past year, the charity concludes that appalling Home Office failures are leaving people homeless and hungry. The study of these files from…

MP Chris Bryant is top of the list to table a Private Member’s Bill and he’s opened it up to a public vote. One of the options is a Refugee Families Bill – ‘allowing refugee families to be reunited by expanding the definition of family members allowed to accompany refugees and giving refugee children the…

Racial discrimination is deep-rooted, endemic and institutionalised in the education system and is blighting the lives and careers of BME teachers and damaging the futures of children and young people, a new report warns. Visible Minorities, Invisible Teachers, published jointly by NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union with the Runnymede Trust, sets out the current challenges faced by teachers from BME…