Windrush Day: 75 years on
22 June 2023 is the 75th anniversary of Windrush. This blog post explains the history of Windrush, and how people in this generation and future generations continue to be harmed by UK Home Office mistakes.
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Guide to right to rent checks from Law for Life
The organisation Law for Life have produced an information guide about right to rent. The guide includes information about who has a right to rent, when you need to prove this right and when you don’t, how to prove a right to rent, changes as a result of Brexit and Covid-19, what you can do if you are discriminated against in this process and more.
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New Patients Not Passports toolkit
Docs Not Cops, Migrants Organise and Medact have launched a new toolkit designed to support you in advocating for people facing charges for NHS care, and in taking action to end immigration checks and upfront charging in the NHS.
There’s guidance if you’re supporting someone being charged for healthcare, the facts about the NHS charges, and tools so you can campaign for change in your local area.
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NHS charges for migrants are dangerous and ineffective, say Bristol medics and midwives.
On Saturday 9th March, 2019, a demonstration, No Borders in Maternity Care, will gather at St Michael’s maternity hospital at midday and march to Bristol Royal Infirmary.
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Homelessness, exploitation, failure: The price of May’s anti-migrant project
‘Theresa May’s hostile environment has meant a lack of basic rights for human beings in precarious situations.’ We wrote for Politics.co.uk about the government’s “right… Read more »
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Help keep borders out of our children’s classrooms
Since September 2016, the Home Office has been asking school’s across England for the nationality data of their students. This policy is unnecessary, divisive… Read more »
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Immigration status checks on bank accounts
As further measures of the Hostile Environment (or “Compliance Environment” in the Home Office’s rebranding) come into force, we look at the background to immigration checks on bank accounts, who is affected, and what people should do if they are wrongly told they are not entitled to an account.
Update: in May 2018, the Home Office announced that immigration checks on bank accounts are to be suspended in the wake of the Windrush scandal.
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West Yorkshire and Kent police forces to have new trial powers to stop and search people for ‘immigration offences’
Polices forces in West Yorkshire and Kent have begun a pilot progamme that will grant both forces the same powers as Immigration Officers to search… Read more »
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Patients not passports!
This Saturday, there will be actions in London, Manchester and Newcastle to protest the introduction of immigration checks in the NHS. The Minister for Health,… Read more »
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I grew up living like a criminal – now I’m finding my voice
by Victory Sanu-Goodness @queenvictoryy Victory Sanu-Goodness arrived in the UK at seven years old. Now 20, she is a writer, radio host, & youth activist. She co-hosts… Read more »
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School census will force children like me into the shadows
18th May is the final deadline to opt your child out of the national school census or to retract previously submitted data. See the links… Read more »
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Mapping Dystopia: The Hidden Shame of Fortress Europe
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain @MariennaPW The Brexit chronicles began in shambles and false promises and no doubt the ending will be… Read more »
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