🔊NEW: APPG on Refugees report released today. 16 MPs and Peers have endorsed the findings which recommend smashing the gangs must go hand in hand with improvements to safe and legal routes for refugees to reduce channel deaths. https://t.co/GHvOfE4i6s https://t.co/BEDOvIVAZU

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This was recommended by the APPG in our report earlier this year:

https://t.co/24oivQcxeD Yesterday the Government confirmed that no new referrals to the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) will be made. The Government should now bring forward a plan for future schemes and scaling up the UK Resettlement Scheme.

Thank you @ZoeFranklinLD for your support for refugees and people seeking asylum as Vice Chair of the APPG.

Thank you @tonyvaughanMP for your steadfast commitment to refugees as Co-Chair of the APPG with @AlfDubs.

"Becoming a refugee is never a choice. But how we respond is. So let us choose 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. Let us choose 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲. Let us choose 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. On this #WorldRefugeeDay, solidarity must go beyond words." - @antonioguterres #WithRefugees

Thank you to APPG member @Uma_Kumaran for highlighting the work of charities such as @refugeecouncil, @RAMFELCharity, @magpieprojectuk, and @Praxis_Projects who are in her constituency supporting refugees. This #RefugeeWeek show support to your local refugee organisations!

On #WorldRefugeeDay2025 take the time to listen to APPG on Refugees Co-Chair @AlfDubs on @BBCRadio4 Desert Island Discs discuss his history arriving to the UK on the Kindertransport and how this experience drives him to advocate for protection for refugees now and in the future.

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower is… your local parish church! ‘From Strangers to Neighbours: The Church and the Integration of Refugees’ by @GLapshynov is out today to coincide with #RefugeeWeek. Read more below 🧵... https://t.co/PPMlwND6Uz

Well worth a listen when you have a few mins - child refugee, stalwart refugee rights campaigner and Refugee Council Patron @AlfDubs on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island discs yesterday. https://t.co/knHjLrIDwL

@carla_denyer @Guli_FD @AlfDubs @SalBrinton @ZoeFranklinLD Thank you also to lawyers from @DuncanLewis and @ILPAimmigration for guiding us through the legal complexities of this policy change and why citizenship is such an important right for anyone granted refugee status, regardless of how you came to the UK.

Full house for yesterday's APPG meeting on the refugee citizenship ban. We heard powerful testimonies from Beshta and Farzad on the impact of this ban on people who want to integrate into British society and the effect on their mental health. 1/2

But it must be coupled by a plan to reduce small boat crossings by introducing safe routes. A secure home is vital, but the Government must fix structural issues affecting people seeking asylum, including lifting the ban on the right to work and improving decision-making. 2/2

It is welcome the Chancellor confirms hotel use for people seeking asylum will end by next election. The Government cite £1 billion in savings each year, but it will also have a huge impact on refugee mental health and integration. 1/2

@ChrisMurrayMP @CommonsHomeAffs @YvetteCooperMP @safepassageint @refugeecouncil It is pleasing that the Home Secretary confirms the Government are looking at this, though it has not yet been a focus of agreements with EU countries. Read more in @refugeecouncil reports here: https://t.co/wVogU0pU4E https://t.co/Pkg0y8kAUa

@ChrisMurrayMP @CommonsHomeAffs @YvetteCooperMP The Dublin Arrangement allowed the UK to take in unaccompanied refugee children with family here, but this is not possible anymore. @safepassageint and @refugeecouncil found that 95% of family reunion cases they supported via Dublin no longer qualify under existing rules 2/3

APPG member @ChrisMurrayMP raised the importance of international cooperation to reduce small boat crossings at @CommonsHomeAffs today. Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP said the Government have always sought a replacement to the Dublin system after Brexit 1/3

@JakeBenRichards @CommonsHomeAffs @refugeecouncil @HelenBamber @humansforrights @EnverSol You can read the full report here, and the APPG will be pressing the Government to act on the recommendations and ensure steps are taken sooner to prevent children being put in adult settings in the first place. 3/3 https://t.co/HNLBOBMWCO

@JakeBenRichards @CommonsHomeAffs @refugeecouncil @HelenBamber @humansforrights The Refugee and Migrant Children's Consortium say over 600 local authorities had vulnerable refugee children referred to them in 2024. Many of these children were put in adult asylum hotels or detention, which @EnverSol of @refugeecouncil described as a safeguarding scandal. 2/3

Thank you to @JakeBenRichards who sits on the @CommonsHomeAffs for raising the vital issue of refugee children wrongly being placed in adult asylum hotels. Many of the children @refugeecouncil, @HelenBamber and @humansforrights work with are wrongly classed as adults. 1/3