Asylum seekers / refugees
Serco loses government’s asylum accommodation contract in Scotland
The private housing provider at the centre of controversy over its plans to evict hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow has lost its asylum accommodation contract for Scotland.
Published 9 January 2019
Glasgow City Council knew about Serco refugee eviction plans ‘for months’
Plans by private housing provider Serco to evict hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow were known by senior managers at Glasgow City Council for months, according to reports.
Published 4 December 2018
Home Office lodges full defences in Serco lock-change case
The Home Office has lodged its full defences with the Court of Session in the legal challenge against a series of lock-change orders issued to tenants refused asylum in the UK.
Published 19 November 2018
Kirk announces EU funding partnership to welcome and support refugees
The Church of Scotland has been awarded £130,000 in EU funding as part of an ambitious project to support refugee integration in Scotland.
Published 16 October 2018
Scottish Government announces funding for asylum seeker housing services
An organisation that supports asylum seekers in Glasgow is to benefit from extra funding from the Scottish Government in light of recent eviction proposals.
Published 4 October 2018
Blog: Asylum seekers in Scotland - what's the background to the Serco contract issues?
CIH senior policy adviser John Perry takes a more detailed look at the background to the recent Serco contract issues in relation to accommodation for asylum seekers.
Published 14 September 2018
Jeremy Corbyn to meet eviction-threatened asylum seekers in Glasgow
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will today meet asylum seeker families in Glasgow threatened with eviction by outsourcing giant Serco and call for such services to be delivered by not for profit public bodies.
Published 22 August 2018
Govan Law Centre issues new Human Rights Act challenge against Serco
Govan Law Centre (GLC) has commenced additional legal proceedings at Scotland’s Supreme Court on behalf of an Iraqi asylum seeker threatened with eviction by Serco.
Published 14 August 2018
£110,000 grant to aid response effort for eviction-threatened asylum seekers
The Scottish Government has responded to the threat of asylum seekers in Glasgow facing homelessness and destitution with emergency funding which will allow charities to provide support until their legal options have been exhausted.
Published 9 August 2018
‘Lock changes need permission’, Maryhill Housing tells Serco
Maryhill Housing Association has joined the growing list of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) frustrating the planned evictions of over 300 asylum seekers in Glasgow by telling Serco that it cannot change its locks without consent.
Published 8 August 2018
Serco to ‘pause’ asylum seeker lock-change plan as housing associations offer assistance
Housing provider Serco has said it will “pause” issuing lock-change orders to tenants refused asylum in the UK ahead of a court challenge following pressure from campaigners, charities and housing associations.
Published 7 August 2018
Serco to press on with evictions as legal proceedings ‘imminent’
Home Office housing provider Serco has denied that moves to change the locks at the accommodation of asylum seekers in Glasgow will trigger a humanitarian crisis.
Published 2 August 2018
Taskforce set up to help asylum seekers threatened with eviction in Glasgow
Glasgow City Council has set up a taskforce in a bid to help up to 300 asylum seekers facing eviction in the city.
Published 1 August 2018
Housing sector condemns Serco eviction plans as home secretary faces mounting pressure to intervene
The firm behind “crude and cruel” plans to change locks and evict up to 300 asylum seekers in Glasgow who have been told they have no right to stay in the UK is under increasing pressure to suspend the action.
Published 31 July 2018
Opinion: Serco’s course of action should be stopped immediately
Chartered Institute of Housing vice president Jim Strang reacts to news that hundreds of asylum seekers in Glasgow face eviction.
Published 31 July 2018
