Gold Jennings, Deighton Peirce Glynn and Care4Calias were granted strategic legal funding for a project relating to the ongoing use of RAF Wethersfield and other ex-Ministry of Defence sites (“Large Sites”) as asylum support accommodation. As part of this project, we have prepared an information pack to assist residents of Large Sites as well as organisations supporting them in understanding the Home Office’s suitability criteria for Large Sites and the processes involved in assessing an individual’s suitability for such accommodation. Please find a copy of this information pack here.
This pack includes an overview of the suitability criteria, suggestions for how to raise issues of suitability (and obtaining evidence of the same) and template subject access requests to send to various organisations in order to obtain residents records.
Word versions of the template emails can be found here and template subject access requests can be found here.
Should you have any questions about the pack or if you are supporting any residents of large sites who require legal representation to challenge the suitability of their accommodation, please do not hesitate to contact Olivia Halse olivia@goldjennings.co.uk.
This pack was prepared by: Olivia Halse and Anya Draycott-Kapp of Gold Jennings and Emily Soothill and Tabatha Pinto of DPG with the assistance of Hannah Marwood and Katherine Ure of Care4Calias.
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Information Pack for Residents of Large Sites and Supporting Organisations