The Effects of UK Immigration, Asylum and Refugee Policy on Poverty: Evidence for the Joint Inquiry by the APPG on Migration and the APPG on Poverty

Experiences and impact of moral injury in human trafficking survivors: a qualitative study

15/11/2024

Moral injury is understood to be the strong cognitive and emotional response that can occur following events that violate a person’s moral or ethical code. It is characterised by profound feelings of guilt, shame, anger, and disgust and has been conceptualised as a substantial breaking down of an individual’s relationship with self and others. Research in recent years has increasingly highlighted the relationship between exposure to potentially morally injurious events and poor mental health outcomes.

Response to Department of Health and Social Care consultation on the Healthy Start scheme

Zoe Dexter

22/10/2024

The current eligibility criteria results in the barring of many children, amongst the most economically disadvantaged in the UK, from Healthy Start. They are thus put at further risk of suffering a nutritional deficit with long term impact on their health and wellbeing. This submission outlines why the Healthy Start scheme should be extended to all families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF).

Evidence to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration inspection of contact management

Kamena Dorling

21/10/2024

This submission outlines concerns about Home Office contact management with people seeking asylum, including the imposition of reporting conditions on extremely vulnerable individuals, including those with mental and/or physical disabilities and survivors of torture and trafficking, and poor communication with those in asylum accommodation.

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