Asylum accommodation Contents

Contents

Background to the COMPASS contracts

The cost of COMPASS

2 Demands of the asylum system

Increase in applications and waiting time

Work in progress and appeals

3 Initial Accommodation

Initial Accommodation provision

Concerns about Initial Accommodation

Treatment of women and health and social care

4 Dispersal accommodation

Local authority consent

Sharing the burden fairly between local authorities

Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme

Temporary dispersal accommodation

Strategic Migration Partnerships

5 Standards in dispersal accommodation

Health and safety issues

Furnishings and facilities

Complaints mechanism

Dealing with complaints

Number of complaints

6 Wellbeing of asylum seekers

Allocation of accommodation

Mix of people and overcrowding

Inappropriate accommodation for vulnerable people

Moving people between properties

Privacy, dignity and respect

7 After the asylum claim

A two-tier system

8 The future of COMPASS contracts

Conclusions and recommendations

Annex 1: Asylum seekers in dispersed accommodation, by local authority, as at end of Quarter 3, 2016 (alphabetical order)

Annex 2: Asylum seekers in dispersed accommodation, by local authority, as at end of Quarter 3, 2016 (in descending order of number accommodated)

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

24 January 2017