Today’s the first day of winter and, with it, comes the inevitable stress for our clients of trying to keep warm and fed during the long, cold months. The risk of street homelessness is all too real for far too many of the people we live with, but even for… Read More
News
Unfair Housing?
Birmingham, it’s no secret, is in the midst of a housing crisis. Over 12,000 people are in temporary accommodation, half of whom are children. As ever, the brunt of this crisis is most sharply felt by those at society’s margins, Setting aside those denied recourse to public funds, and consigned… Read More
Monday….
So, it’s a grey October morning, and we’re back at it. Amongst other things so far, today, we’ve been dealing with the Home Office’s response to an application for one of our clients to be granted recourse to public funds. She is the single mother of a British citizen., who… Read More
Could You Be An ASIRT Trustee?
ASIRT is seeking clear thinkers with a passion for justice to expand our diverse Board of Trustees and complement our existing range of abilities and experience. As a trustee you will take up a voluntary leadership role, using your skills and experience to help guide the organisation strategically and to… Read More
Destitution, domestic violence, and access to justice.
This week, we received a referral from a partner agency working to support women and children subject to domestic violence. They were supporting a woman, lawfully present in the UK but without recourse to public funds, and her young child, who is a British citizen. The woman is resident in… Read More
Please donate to our ‘no recourse’ Hardship Fund
Contribute to the fund by clicking here We do not charge those in need for our services and all contributions we receive through the fund will be donated directly to people in the most dire of circumstances. Government policy denies already struggling individuals, parents and children access to essential welfare… Read More
Ordinary crises: what happens to ASIRT’s clients when things go right.
There are presently, to our knowledge, more than 6000 homeless children in Birmingham. 3 of these are ‘Joe’, ‘Daniel’ and ‘Thomas’. Daniel is 11 years old, and has lived in the UK since he was born:. He is now a British citizen, his mother, who is Nigerian, having been helped… Read More
Quiz!
I think it’s fair to say that this past week, after a winter of lockdown and isolation, has been a lot. Not least, of course, because we’ve seen yet another wave of proposed immigration reforms hellbent on pursuing an agenda, set in place for the past 20 years, which claims… Read More
Unsettled Status
With the advent of Brexit, people will doubtless have read of the chaos and uncertainty facing European Union nationals resident in the UK who are seeking to regularise their status under the Home Office’s Settled Status scheme. But if the situation is difficult and confusing for people with clearly demarcated… Read More
Profiting from childhood misery
A little over 3 years ago, we met ‘Sade’ and her mother, ‘Maria’, about whom we’ve told you before. When we met, Sade, who was born in the UK, was a little over 8, and had spent the entirety of her life to date in this country, which is her… Read More
