Home Office trial doubles time refugees have to find home before eviction
Charities and politicians praise increase to 56 days but press for move to be made permanent
Charities and politicians have welcomed a Home Office trial that will doublethe number of days refugees have to find a home before being evicted from asylum accommodation.
The government has faced persistent calls to increase the move-on period, the amount of time people granted the right to remain in the UK are given to find a home and an income before being kicked out of hotels and other forms of asylum accommodation, after soaring rates of refugee homelessness.
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