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The Directorate for Asylum Support Services (DASS) was established in November 1999 as a unit of the Department of Justice.It introduced a system of direct provision for asylum applicants, providing residential accommodation and ancillary services to asylum seekers while they await the outcome of their applications for asylum.
It has operated all such accommodation in Wales since 2012, a contract which was valued at £119 million in 2016. [11] [2] The company currently has two ten-year contracts with the British government to operate accommodation for asylum seekers in Wales and the South of England until 2029, at a total cost of over £1 billion. [1]
An Australian travel firm previously slammed for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels has been quietly handed a £1.6bn contract covering the UK’s new asylum accommodation ships, The ...
Asylum seekers usually lose access to accommodation support when their claim for asylum, and any subsequent appeal, is rejected. Fact check: Hotel accommodation for asylum seekers aims to be ...
People living near a hotel which recently started to accommodate nearly 300 asylum seekers have spoken about the decision to house them there. The men, believed to be mainly from the African ...
In June 2023, the Independent reported CTM had been awarded a £1.6 billion contract to house asylum-seekers in the UK, including on barges. [5] The Bibby Stockholm barge, subcontracted by CTM [6] at Portland Port, Dorset, began housing asylum-seekers on 7 August 2023, amid concerns about fire risks [7] and other safety concerns. [8]
The Asylum Support Partnership (ASP) is the largest asylum seeker support organisations in the United Kingdom and claims to be the only one giving asylum support over the whole of Britain. [ 1 ] The mission of ASP is to ensure that "all those seeking asylum in Britain have their human rights upheld and that those seeking asylum in our community ...
Expenditure on asylum accommodation and support has risen significantly in the past four years, with think tank IPPR estimating that costs have gone from £739m in 2019/20 to £4.7bn in 2023/24.