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Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group: Our Vision
The group set out their vision of how people should be housed while waiting for an asylum decision.
Settlement and Citizenship for Children in Care
Our briefing for local authorities is based on the experiences of young people in Greater Manchester who we have supported with their immigration or citizenship applications.
2025 Impact Report
Our 2025 report shares our achievements as we continue to stand alongside people navigating the UK’s immigration and asylum systems during a period of upheaval and hostility.
Refugee Homelessness in Greater Manchester
Our briefing explores how trust has been corroded between local authority housing teams, voluntary sector organisations, and refugees facing homelessness.
“This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office
A report on the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office.
Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office: Policy Briefing
A policy briefing published alongside our report, "This system destroys you".
The impact of the Rwanda detentions on communities in Greater Manchester
A briefing about the impact on our communities of the Rwanda detentions and the racist riots that followed.
Our Expectations for Greater Manchester Politicians
We’ve created a collective set of expectations for politicians in Greater Manchester, signed by organisations across the city-region. See our Campaigns page for more.
Supporting people on the 10-year route to settlement in the North West
Our joint briefing with IPPR provides local authorities with practical information to ensure everyone in the North West can thrive.
A Slow Violence: Policy Briefing
A policy briefing with the key findings and recommendations of our report with Boaz Trust, "A Slow Violence: How immigration control forces people in Greater Manchester into destitution".
A Slow Violence: How immigration control forces people in Greater Manchester into destitution
Our research with Boaz Trust found that people in our city-region are forced into destitution for years, sometimes decades, as a result of their immigration status.
“We lost our lives when we arrived here”: Children in the UK’s asylum system
Children seeking safety told us how, on arriving in the UK, they found themselves in months and years of limbo.
“A Punishing Process”: Experiences of people on the 10-year route to settlement
Our report with IPPR and Praxis finds that the ten-year route is holding people back and holding people down.
“I’m terrified”: the dangers of Home Office Age Assessments
The Home Office are systematically carrying out short, inadequate age assessments and making the wrong decision as to a child’s age.
”Living in constant fear”: The impact of reporting conditions on children, young people and families in Greater Manchester
Our report shows that the reporting system is doing invisible harm to children and young people.
Who the EU Settlement Scheme Left Behind
Overnight, tens of thousands of people lost their right to be in the UK lawfully. The Government was warned that vulnerable people would be left behind by the EU Settlement Scheme.