At NACCOM, our vision is for a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system that eliminates destitution and allows people to live with dignity and agency. Not only is this the right thing to do, it is also eminently achievable. However, the swathe of reforms announced by the government over the past week push this simple aim even further out of reach. The individual measures by themselves would be bad enough, but taken together they create a system that is combative, punitive, costly and inhumane, and fundamentally for us at NACCOM, is likely to push more people into homelessness [...]

The Home Office has announced a series of reforms to the asylum and immigration system. We have summarised them below, in chronological order of when they take effect. 5 March 2026 Consultation: Reforming Asylum Support and Enforcing Family Returns The Home Office has begun a private consultation with a range of partners and stakeholders over a 12-week period on their approach to family returns and support for families whose asylum claims have been refused. The consultation seeks views on the commencement of provisions in Part 5 of the Immigration Act 2016 which reform the support available to families with [...]

Organisation: Rainbow Migration Job Title: Legal Assistant Hours: Full time (35hpw) or part time (28hpw) will be considered. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. Location: Rainbow Migration Head Office, Vauxhall, London, with option for hybrid working. Occasional travel outside London. Salary: £27,011PA (Full time) Deadline: 9am (London time) on Monday 13 April 2026 Further information: Please visit the job listing on the Rainbow Migration website.  --------- Organisation: Rainbow Migration Job Title: Trustee Rainbow Migration is looking for a Trustee with lived experience of being award refugee status in the UK on the basis of [...]

We are excited to introduce our conference attendees to Sarah P Corbett, an award-winning activist, Ashoka Fellow, author and founder of the global Craftivist Collective. Sarah will be running a craftivism workshop at our conference in Leeds on 25 March 2026. Her form of gentle craftivism uses slow, thoughtful handicraft (like hand-embroidery and papercrafts) as a non-aggressive, compassionate tool to influence hearts, minds, policies and laws. We caught up with her about her plans for the day. Hi, Sarah. What types of activities can our conference attendees expect to experience in the Craftivism afternoon workshop at our conference? Sarah: [...]