Unfinished business: Redressing inequality in British policy and Black lives | IPPR The economics of exclusion: Policy, poverty, and the cost of inequalityDeep disparities in wealth and opportunity continue to shape outcomes for Black comm

⚖️| NEW BLOG: British policy continues to entrench racial inequality, from economic exclusion to digital surveillance. Our latest blog calls for urgent reform to redress the impact on Black lives. Read here www.ippr.org/articles/unf...

Billions squandered on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement – Home Affairs Committee report finds - Committees - UK Parliament Flawed contract design and incompetent delivery left the Home Office unable to cope with the surge in demand for asylum accommodation, a report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.

Important new report on the failures of the asylum accommodation system by Home Affairs Committee.

…picking back up with some news from this week 👇

The Home Affairs Select Committee has just published its report on asylum accommodation – and I’m pleased to see many of IPPR’s recommendations reflected in it.

The ten year route to settlement has already proven to be punishing for many. Listen to @amreenqureshi.bsky.social on BBC radio discussing the potential impact of increasing the default from five to ten years - on individuals, families and society.

I helped @theipaper.com with this article, explaining how further restrictions to accessing welfare is unlikely to reduce the number of people coming to the UK.

Read below ⬇️

The UK must introduce Gaza Family Visa as it did for Ukraine With dozens of children dying in Gaza every day, the UK must show the same flexibility it demonstrated in past crises

A classroom of children dies every day in Gaza. Yet since the war started in October 2023, only 80 children have been granted visas to come to the UK.

✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇

www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...

This time last week I spoke at the Home Affairs Select Committee about fixing our asylum accommodation system. We urgently need to shift power regionally and locally, improve safeguarding, and move away from mass sites - towards community solutions that work for everyone.

ICYMI: A fantastic piece by my colleague @lucyhbmort.bsky.social - www.ippr.org/articles/cit...

When public confidence in immigration is shaped as much by perception as reality, Labour has a choice: follow the race to the bottom or build a system that strengthens communities - not fracture them.

Report Launch: Every Child is Equal — Praxis Praxis and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reveal the harmful impacts of being excluded from childcare support on migrant families in the new report - Every Child is Equal, Bridging...

3️⃣The government must also take steps to ensure that providers of family services are better equipped to help migrant families understand and take up the entitlements they are eligible for.

Read the full report: www.praxis.org.uk/news/report-...

REVEALED: A huge 30% of migrant parents not using childcare are struggling to make ends meet.

Our new report with @ippr.bsky.social is out now and here’s what you need to know 🧵

Authors @josephinewy.bsky.social & @lucyhbmort.bsky.social

Hidden hardships: The immigration system and child poverty | IPPR In 2022/23 it was estimated that 4.3 million children live in relative poverty, and this number has risen in recent years. Among those disproportionately i

The govt's child poverty strategy must support all children, regardless of immigration status:
✅ Remove NRPF for families after 5 years of residence
✅ Statutory guidance for councils to support families in crisis
✅ Extend childcare to working parents with NRPF

The @IPPR report🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbjptmb

📢Parents shared the reality of raising children under these conditions:

"I can’t buy clothes for my children, shoes, or even snacks" – Hafsa, a skilled worker visa holder

"I've dealt with immigration for 24 years and have yet to rest or feel at ease" – Sharon, a mother married to a British citizen

Families face legal, institutional & social barriers:
⚠️ NRPF restrictions lock families out of essential support like Child Benefit
⚠️ Extortionate visa fees force parents to pay thousands to stay in the UK
⚠️ Discrimination & language barriers limit work opportunities & make accessing support harder

Over a third of children in poverty in the UK are from migrant families:
📍 1.5 million children in poverty have parents born outside the UK
📍 1 in 5 of these children live in very deep poverty
📍 Many go without proper food, school trips, hobbies, or even a bedroom of their own

🚨 Today, we publish new research that lays bare the scale of child poverty in migrant families.

46% of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty - almost double the rate for other children. The govt cannot tackle child poverty without tackling issues in our migration system. 🧵⬇️

Hidden hardships: The immigration system and child poverty | IPPR In 2022/23 it was estimated that 4.3 million children live in relative poverty, and this number has risen in recent years. Among those disproportionately i

⏰ | NEW REPORT: No child should grow up in hardship due to their parents’ immigration status, but nearly half of children in the UK with parents born abroad are living in poverty.

@amreenqureshi.bsky.social and @marleymorris.bsky.social explore the solutions 👇

YouTube video by Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees BREAKING: Migrant parents screen video message across Westminster

BREAKING: We screened a message from migrant parents across Westminster.

Hostile immigration rules enforced by this Govt. drive children into poverty.

🔊End child poverty, for EVERY child. Scrap No Recourse to Public Funds.

Make sure they know, we won’t let this go. Share now.
youtu.be/0d9YPGlFzC0

🌍 | NEW REPORT: In the face of Brexit barriers, potential Trump tariffs, and global economic turbulence, the government is developing a new trade strategy. In this paper we set out a blueprint to rebuild, protect, and grow the UK's exports.

New ONS figures show net migration of 728,000 in year ending June 2024, a drop of 178,000 compared to year earlier.

But ONS revisions mean estimates of recent net migration are higher than previously thought, reaching peak of 906,000 in the year ending June 2023.

📈 Figures released today show net migration is coming down but the government still faces tough choices when it comes to immigration.

📚 Read @marleymorris.bsky.social's response here 👇

Today's immigration stats indicate that new salary thresholds for Skilled Workers are starting to bite.

Most strikingly, there was a 70% fall in Skilled Worker visa grants in hospitality sector between Q2 and Q3 of 2024. This sector is generally low-paid so impact expected to be larger.

File on 4 - The Asylum Business - BBC Sounds What is the government’s plan to stop the use of asylum hotels? File on 4 investigates.

This ep of File on 4 is well worth a listen. It features people who feared for their lives when rioters targeted hotels in the summer & highlights @ippr.bsky.social analysis that finds the cost of asylum accom has more than doubled pp in just 5 years from £17k to £41k. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The asylum stats reiterate the fact that too many people are still stuck in woeful hotels. This is costing the gov't a hell of a lot and is no good at all for people living in them. We need local & regional bodies to be put in the driving seat - getting people out of hotels and into communities.

Wholesale asylum reform is critical.

This can be done by reintroducing an improved streamlined asylum process to clear the backlog. The govt should also consider a locally and regionally led approach to accommodation to reduce hotel use and improve living conditions for people seeking asylum.

The government also has inherited an asylum system in disarray, and the first vital step is to fix the block on claims processing caused by the Illegal Migration Act.

The new government faces tough choices on immigration.

More cuts could create challenges in recruitment in key sectors like health and social care.

University finances could also be impacted if fewer international students don't choose the UK as a place to study.

Today's migration stats release shows that net migration is coming down, and we expect a further substantial fall in the next set of figures.

Regarding asylum figures, the backlog remains too high, and the costs of asylum accommodation continue to be eye-watering.