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Legal threat to Burnham asylum plan
POLICY AND POLITICS

Legal threat to Burnham asylum plan

By Dan Peters | 14 August 2026

Reform UK and the Conservatives could launch legal challenges to prevent Prime Minister Andy Burnham from spreading asylum accommodation more evenly across the country.

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Asylum legal downgrade sparks concern

By Dan Peters | 05 August 2026

Strategic migration partnerships have raised concerns about the impact of a Home Office decision ...

ASYLYM

Reform calls on Burnham to give councils asylum powers

By William Eichler | 22 July 2026

Reform UK has written to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham demanding local authorities be given the...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Social workers in safeguarding warning

By Joe Lepper | 22 May 2026

Home Office plans to overrule councils’ decisions on the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking chil...

ASYLYM

Fresh criticism of Home Office on asylum

By Neil Merrick | 22 July 2025

Relations between councils and the Home Office soured further this week after the department was ...

ASYLYM

K&C chief urges agreement on asylum accommodation price

By Paul Marinko | 24 October 2024

Kensington & Chelsea LBC’s chief executive has called on the Government to agree with councils on...

WHITEHALL

High Court dismisses Bibby Stockholm legal challenge

By Mark Conrad | 23 May 2024

The High Court has dismissed a legal case challenging the Government’s controversial use of the B...

HOUSING

Homes for Ukraine two years on: Safe and welcomed

By Cllr Kevin Bentley | 14 March 2024

Two years on from the instigation of the Homes for Ukraine scheme councils remain keen to work wi...

WHITEHALL

Cleverly comes under immediate asylum pressure

By Mark Conrad | 14 November 2023

New home secretary James Cleverly has come under immediate pressure to ditch his predecessor’s co...

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