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POLICY AND POLITICS
Legal threat to Burnham asylum plan
By Dan Peters | 14 August 2026
Reform UK and the Conservatives could launch legal challenges to prevent Prime Minister Andy Burnham from spreading asylum accommodation more evenly across the country.
POLICY AND POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Asylum legal downgrade sparks concern
By Dan Peters | 05 August 2026
Strategic migration partnerships have raised concerns about the impact of a Home Office decision ...
ASYLYM
Reform calls on Burnham to give councils asylum powers
By William Eichler | 22 July 2026
Reform UK has written to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham demanding local authorities be given the...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Social workers in safeguarding warning
By Joe Lepper | 22 May 2026
Home Office plans to overrule councils’ decisions on the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking chil...
ASYLYM
Fresh criticism of Home Office on asylum
By Neil Merrick | 22 July 2025
Relations between councils and the Home Office soured further this week after the department was ...
ASYLYM
K&C chief urges agreement on asylum accommodation price
By Paul Marinko | 24 October 2024
Kensington & Chelsea LBC’s chief executive has called on the Government to agree with councils on...
WHITEHALL
High Court dismisses Bibby Stockholm legal challenge
By Mark Conrad | 23 May 2024
The High Court has dismissed a legal case challenging the Government’s controversial use of the B...
HOUSING
Homes for Ukraine two years on: Safe and welcomed
By Cllr Kevin Bentley | 14 March 2024
Two years on from the instigation of the Homes for Ukraine scheme councils remain keen to work wi...
WHITEHALL
Cleverly comes under immediate asylum pressure
By Mark Conrad | 14 November 2023
New home secretary James Cleverly has come under immediate pressure to ditch his predecessor’s co...
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