News 2020
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13 August 2020
Do unto others
“Not a single recipient of this letter would accept to be moved in such a way, on human rights grounds and on grounds of public health and safety, yet you see fit to let this be done to someone’s son, brother husband or father who is seeking…
11 August 2020
Is there a concerted attack on the whole idea of community control of housing?
As Lesley Riddoch reports, there appears to be something of a concerted attack on the whole idea of community control of housing.
9 August 2020
Shouting in the dark
Bilal* was still wearing his surgical stockings from cancer surgery, when the Mears Group told him they were moving him in the next day or two from a Glasgow hotel. I asked him to find out where he was being moved, so we had time to organise support in the…
7 August 2020
Mears. Fears. Tears.
Call to Action Donate via CAF or PayPal For other ways to give, go here Writing this in the aftermath of Park Inn and Adnan Walid Elbi reminds me of Ed Daffarn‘s blog about Grenfell. What’s happening in Glasgow has to be documented. Many people have…
31 July 2020
Home Office to commission an “evaluation” of asylum seeker housing.
The Director General, HM Passport Office and UK Visas & Immigration wrote to Chris Stephens MP, on July 29 as follows: ”Following the tragic incident at the Park Inn, West George Street, Glasgow on 26th June 2020, I have commissioned an evaluation of the accommodation and support services experienced by…
30 July 2020
New call for public inquiry into “duty of care failures” by Mears Group concerning Glasgow’s asylum seekers.
List of Signatories as of Friday 31 July 2020Download Add your name and a message of support First published 31 July 2020 1,400 organisations and private citizens from across civic society have now signed calls for a fully independent public inquiry into the deadly accommodation crisis affecting Glasgow’s asylum seekers…
23 July 2020
Living in fear of Mears
An update on hotel living for Glasgow’s refugees and asylum seekers Firstly, thank you so much for helping to challenge living conditions at Tartan Lodge at the hands of the Mears Group – an outsourcing company with a £10B contract from the Home Office to house asylum…
7 July 2020
Glasgow’s hotel asylum seekers
Last Thursday, our staff and volunteers were working on the ground, organising food, PPE and mobile phones for the asylum seekers who were moved after the Park Inn Tragedy on June 26 to the Hallmark Hotel in Glasgow. This happened barely six weeks following the death of a suicidal Syrian refugee,…
30 June 2020
GLASGOW’S VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS – HOW YOU CAN HELP
SUPPORT THESE KEY DEMANDS Then add your name in support by clicking here 1. We call on the Mears Group to arrange for the immediate return of 370 people to residential homes. We know that the serviced accommodation providers still have many available homes that Mears uprooted people from. 2. We call on…
30 June 2020
Deadly Accommodation Crisis for Glasgow’s Hotel Asylum Seekers
Support the demand for a public inquiry In September 2019, the Home Office awarded Mears Group a 10 year asylum contract worth £1B to provide housing for vulnerable asylum seekers in Scotland and England. In March/April 2020 the Mears Group breached the Scottish Government’s Lockdown and forcibly moved 370 vulnerable…
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