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20 April 2020
Mears moves over 300 Glasgow asylum seekers into hotels where social distancing is ‘impossible’
Positive Action in Housing said it is aware of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels and having all their financial support withdrawn, leaving them unable to top up their phones to keep contact with lawyers, caseworkers and GPs, or buy extra food or hand sanitiser. More worrying still, many…
20 March 2020
Letter to the Home Secretary calling for Suspension of Travel for Asylum Seekers Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
We are a coalition of Scotland and UK based refugee charities and groups working directly with people from refugee and asylum seeking communities. In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, we are dismayed to learn that asylum seekers are still being forced to go to Liverpool to hand in documents despite…
2 March 2020
Anger after Edinburgh Council Officials recommend massive cuts to BME Services for children and families
A broad Coalition of Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) charities and anti-racist organisations providing services for and/or supporting BME Communities in Edinburgh have condemned plans by City of Edinburgh Council officials to recommend massive cuts to BME Services. The BME charities are deeply concerned about the news that services…
30 January 2020
Shame on the racist thugs who attack our immigrant shopkeepers
rotest against racist attacks against Pakistani Muslim brothers Nadeem and Mudassar Akbar in Niddrie, Edinburgh today 4.30 pm Cragmillar Library – please attend. https://www.facebook.com/events/570448223539709/ Positive Action in Housing condemns the vicious racist attack on two defenceless Pakistani Muslim brothers trying to provide a livelihood for their families. …
20 November 2019
Serco lock change evictions – appeal plans underway amid fears of winter destitution
press statement – for immediate release Mike Dailly, Solicitor Advocate at Govan Law Centre said: “Govan Law Centre has been instructed to make an application to the Inner House of the Court of Session to seek permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court in the case of Ali v. Serco…
8 November 2019
Response to Asylum data released by Migration Observatory
New data released by the Migration Observatory – based in Oxford University – finds that the majority of asylum seekers are being housed in disadvantaged local authority areas, while dozens of wealthy councils support none, and face long delays to their claims being decided, but more than half are…
30 October 2019
Statement on Serco Lock Change Evictions
In response to concerns that Serco may carry out lock change evictions from today Thursday 31 October 2019, Positive Action in Housing, the refugee and migrant homelessness charity, has issued the following statement: We are dismayed that Serco is going ahead and evicting vulnerable people from the only homes they have while…
25 October 2019
Positive Action in Housing’s latest Annual Report Launched in Glasgow
Positive in Housing’s 24th Annual Impact Report was launched today in Glasgow City Chambers in front of an audience of 110 member organisations from Scottish housing associations, BME organisations, Refugee groups and homelessness organisations, trade unions as well as service users and volunteers involved with the charity. …
24 October 2019
Comment: Essex Lorry Deaths
Robina Qureshi argues that the UK government must face up to the challenges of the global refugee and migrant crisis – we need safe and legal routes for refugees and migrants. People move, deal with it. Creating tighter border controls simply empowers more human trafficking gangs. The Essex Lorry Tragedy …
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