News - Positive Action in Housing

19 September 2017

Press Statement regarding Chinese man who died at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre

In response to the news that a Chinese man was found dead yesterday in Dungavel, Robina Qureshi, Director of refugee and migrant homelessness charity, Positive Action in Housing, said: “The fact that we know nothing more than that a Chinese man died is typical media crisis management on the…

19 September 2017

Scotland’s child … Mohammad Sudais

THE call that would change the lives of Mohammad Asif and his family came at 6am on Monday, December 16, 2013. “A relative in Afghanistan phoned to tell me there had been an explosion at my brother’s house in Peshawar, Pakistan,” he explains. “I kept calling the…

25 May 2017

Positive Action in Housing Welcomes Destitution Report

Positive Action in Housing has welcomed Holyrood’s Equality and Human Rights Committee’s report on destitution. The Committee’s report recognises the huge challenges facing people seeking safety here, and states that “destitution is built into the asylum process”. The Scottish Parliament Committee…

28 January 2017

SCOTTISH HOMES FOR UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM SEEKING REFUGEE YOUNG PEOPLE DISPERSED FROM KENT. IF SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES WANT TO.

230 households have stepped forward from our Room for Refugees Scotland Register, offering to take in unaccompanied child refugees. 14 potential host families will be attending Glasgow City Councils drop ins next week in the City Chambers. There are 32 households in Edinburgh and many in other local authority areas too. For more…

15 November 2016

Annual Report 2015-16

O ur 2015-16 annual report is hot off the press, to advertise in next year’s publication please email home@paih.org.

20 October 2016

Proposed short term holding facility at Abbotsinch Road to replace Dungavel

Proposed short term holding facility at Abbotsinch Road – to replace Dungavel A planning application has been lodged by Arora Hotels/Management Services/Property with Renfrewshire Council in Scotland to build a 51-bed “short-term holding facility” on Abbotsinch Road. The “facility” will effectively detain or imprison …

19 October 2016

Formal planning objection by Positive Action in Housing to the Erection of Aurora short term immigration holding facility

This was one of our most successful campaigns. Here is the formal objection to the building of a 20-bedroom short-term holding centre at Glasgow Airport to replace Dungavel Removal Centre which was announced to close.

19 June 2016

After the death of Jo Cox: racist rhetoric has deadly consequences

Politicians and certain sections of the media have created a toxic racist environment - and must be held responsible for the hatred they incite.

30 March 2016

Syrian Refugees

Many areas of Scotland have now started accepting refugees being resettled under the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement (VPR) Programme. A co-ordinated response between the DWP, local authorities, Scottish Government, housing providers and other key partners has been put into place so that there should not be any delays in those…

21 February 2016

‘I have met some nice people I am still friends with, and it makes you feel good doing something for other people’

Scotland took pride in offering a home to a disproportionate number of refugees when the UK Government agreed to house 1,000 of those fleeing from the Syrian crisis at the end of last year. However, away from the spotlight of those forced to flee the fighting in the Middle East, a…