Despite claims that all working parents will be able to access extra hours of free childcare from 1st April, tens of thousands of migrant families remain excluded.

Migrants in the UK already face some of the highest upfront visa fees and costs in the world – including parents of British children, keyworkers, and young people who have arrived to the UK as children.

But they will see the fees they have to pay to access healthcare significantly increase on 6 February.

GIANTS member developed Recipes of Life over two years as a form of group therapy, collaborating with NHS therapists. Each week, a member presented a dish, fostering dialogue about the significance of food in their lives and cultures.

The book, a culmination of these therapy sessions, serves as a platform to raise awareness about the challenges faced by men who have experience of hostile migration policies and to advocate for widespread mental health and peer support.

Recent research indicates that visa fees have already plunged entire families into debt, homelessness, and exploitative working conditions.

Migrant rights charity Praxis is warning that the above-inflation rise in fees risks pushing even more migrant households into debt.

The shockingly low number of people who have been able to access compensation through the Windrush Compensation Scheme is underlined today through new data from human rights charity Praxis, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush.

A coalition of 59 charities led by Praxis has written to Government ministers calling for migrants living in poverty to be urgently included in cost of living support measures.

Praxis is sounding the alarm over the rising number of people accessing its immigration advice and welfare services who are being forced into poverty and facing homelessness because Government immigration policies and Home Office delays in processing visa renewals are preventing them from supporting themselves, as the cost of living crisis intensifies.

Children living in poverty affected by the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition, who are among the most vulnerable in our society because they and their families are cut off from the welfare safety net – are still unable to access free school meals, despite a recent policy change.

More than four years since the Windrush scandal was brought to light, human rights charity Praxis is concerned that, far from righting the wrongs caused to thousands, seeing the ‘face behind the case’ or transforming itself into a more compassionate institution, the Home Office is instead doubling down on a hostile and punitive policy agenda that continues to destroy lives.

For the past ten years, thousands upon thousands of people unable to prove their right to live in the UK have been forced into the shadows, as they’ve been prevented from accessing basic services and rights - including healthcare, employment, private and public housing and the welfare system. 

Praxis is deeply concerned that the Government’s punitive No Recourse to Public Funds policy leaves many of the poorest in our society facing serious risk of destitution and homelessness as the worst income squeeze in a generation begins to bite.

Praxis, a charity working with migrants and refugees in London, is sounding the alarm over a government review that could end up taking free school meals away from thousands of children living in poverty because of their parents’ immigration status.

On Tuesday 1st February 2022, peers will debate clause 11 of the Bill, which contains measures that are likely to have significant negative impacts upon the lives of refugees.