While service users remain in IA for more than three weeks, accommodation providers should ensure that all of their residents are linked up to primary and secondary health provision. We call on the Home Office to ensure that this change is made, if necessary by a variation to the Asylum Accommodation and Support Statement of Requirements. The Home Office should also ensure that the necessary funding is secured for affected statutory health services in any such provision.

While service users remain in IA for more than three weeks, accommodation providers should ensure that all of their residents are linked up to primary and secondary health provision. We call on the Home Office to ensure that this change is made, if necessary by a variation to the Asylum Accommodation and Support Statement of Requirements. The Home Office should also ensure that the necessary funding is secured for affected statutory health services in any such provision. Type: recommendation | Number: 21 | Paragraph: 74 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Asylum Accommodation and Support contracts are clear as to how accommodation providers ensure service users are facilitated and signposted to health services appropriate to individual needs. The contractual requirements include providing facilities within initial accommodation for the relevant h