The Home Office has failed to properly consider the impacts of its approach to the delivery of asylum accommodation on local areas and to engage early with local partners to understand what these impacts might be. It is inexplicable that the Home Office has placed no obligation on providers to assess impacts on local areas. Failures to identify and mitigate impacts, compounded by the disproportionate distribution of accommodation, has led to some local services experiencing unsustainable pres...

The Home Office has failed to properly consider the impacts of its approach to the delivery of asylum accommodation on local areas and to engage early with local partners to understand what these impacts might be. It is inexplicable that the Home Office has placed no obligation on providers to assess impacts on local areas. Failures to identify and mitigate impacts, compounded by the disproportionate distribution of accommodation, has led to some local services experiencing unsustainable pressures. This failure to recognise broader impacts can be seen in the pressures experienced by local authorities in areas where significant numbers of asyl Type: conclusion | Number: 37 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: The impact of asylum accommodation on local authority areas is actively considered, particularly for dispersed accommodation, using an indexing model. This model determines the required level of dispersed accommodation in each local authority area, considering fa