LIST OF PAPs

List of PAP Letters Drafted

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Social Services Departments

Care Act Assessment – Challenge to refusal to conduct Care Act Assessment & / provide urgent care

Children Act Assessment - Challenge to refusal to conduct Children Act Assessment & / provide urgent care

Housing Departments across England & Wales

Homelessness Gatekeeping - Challenge to decision not to accept application as homeless and provide accommodation pending enquiries.

Homeless for 7 Day Eviction Applicants - Challenge to failure to accept applicant as homeless since being served notice to quit after an asylum claim is accepted.

Homelessness - Family Reunion - Homelessness failure to provide accommodation for the whole family (family reunion)

Homelessness - B&B Accomodation - Challenge to B&B accommodation being granted to families under the Housing Act indefinitely.

Homelessness - Applications where applicant needs particular help to apply as homeless due to disabilities - eg where s/he cannot attend HPU in person

Eviction of clients – due to termination of the “Everyone in” policy

Failure to Accommodate destitute / vulnerable person - "Everyone in" policy

Welsh Homelessness - gatekeeping

Welsh Homelessness - family reunion

Asylum Support

Section 4 Delays – in providing accommodation post-decision,

Challenges to failure to process application for Section 4 support

Schedule 10 Delay – in making decisions

Subsistence Support – Failure to pay Maternity Grant with the option for failure to increase support on the birth of additional dependent

Section 95/4 Inadequate Accommodation - Failure of Home Office to provide adequate accommodation under Section 95 & Section 4 after a positive decision

Hostel/Hotel Accommodation - Challenge to the adequacy of hostel/hotel accommodation in the long term - for adults and vulnerable people.

Hostel/Hotel Accommodation for families -Challenge to the adequacy of full board accommodation for families for more than 6 weeks.

Section 95 & 98 Delays - Challenge to delays in reaching a decision on section 95 & challenge to delays in providing section 98 support

Section 95 Delays - Failure to provide Section 95 accommodation post decision

Section 95 - Delays in issuing/replacing ASPEN card

Section 95 - Challenge to the provision of accommodation in Napier Barracks

Challenge to the seizure of mobile phones

Challenge to the provision of accommodation in disrepair - "Operation Oak"

Challenge to failure to provide £8 per week cash to people in full board accommodation.

Issues Arising from Manston

PAPs to the Home Office...

Inadequate Asylum Support - Failure to provide adequate asylum support post release from Manston

Phone Retention - Failure to return phone after seizure

Unlawful Detention - Ongoing detention at Manston

PAPs to the Local Authorities...

Failure to conduct an age assessment and provide accommodation

Failure & / Refusal of Treatment

This is where a migrant is refused healthcare, as they are unable to pay in advance and the treatment is urgent / immediately necessary. Please complete the training module on this before attempting.

Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) Registered Only

Challenging delay in lifting NRPF condition by Home Office. You need to have OISC level 3 to do this.

PAPs to the Home Office...

Schedule 10 Support – use for most migrants who are not entitled asylum seekers / refused asylum seekers (who will be entitled to s4 / s95 support) – NB there can be an overlap here with entitlement to Local Authority support.

S4 Failure - To provide s4 support on an urgent basis for people with accommodation, but are in need of subsistence (this is a fairly novel argument).

Adequacy of Shared Accommodation - provided under s4 / s95 / s98 / Schedule 10

Challenge to the provision of unsafe accommodation – provided with violent or threatening co-occupant.

Section 95 - Challenge to the provision of accommodation in Napier Barracks

PAPs to the Local Authorities...

Gatekeeping – For homeless applicants who are eligible but may / may not be in priority need

Gatekeeping – Migrants: for people with NRPF or overstayers who are not refused asylum seekers or EEA Nationals who cannot return to their country of origin due to travel restrictions or Public Health England Guidance.

Eviction of clients – due to termination of the “Everyone in” policy

Failure to Accommodate destitute/vulnerable person - "Everyone in" policy