Resources Latest news Protecting everyone against Covid-19: Our joint letter to the Home Secretary 82 organisations have signed a joint letter to the Home Secretary, calling for urgent action to prioritise public health over anti-immigrant policy. The vaccination programme is being put at risk by the hostile environment. The Home Secretary must act now to ensure everyone is safe and able to access the NHS. We urged the Home Secretary to Immediately suspend all NHS Charging and data-sharing with the Home Office for the purposes of immigration enforcement and mount a public information campaign reassuring people that it will be safe for them to access care during this global public health emergency. Immediately suspend ‘no recourse to public funds’ conditions to ensure that everyone can access the support they need to stay safe and where necessary cease working in order to self-isolate. Make assurances that migrants unable to attend reporting appointments, court dates, or interviews whilst self-isolating will not be penalised. Make provision to extend or modify visas where necessary to prevent people being forced to ‘overstay’ their visa due to being self-isolated or unable to return to a country that is not safe to travel to. Release everyone detained under immigration powers to reduce the risk of COVID19 entering the detention estate and causing avoidable harm. Provide specialist support for those housed in shared asylum accommodation to enable safe access to medical services, testing, and where necessary, re-housing for particularly vulnerable people. It follows a letter we sent last March, at the outbreak of the pandemic, calling for changes to be urgently implemented, in order to protect lives and effectively tackle the covid pandemic. Close to 2,000 people added their names to that letter. But 10 months on there has been a lack of action from the Home Office. Read the full letter Ask your MP to call for an end to NRPF Signatories Satbir Singh, Chief Executive, JCWISophie Neuburg, Executive Director, MedactGracie Bradley, Interim Director, Liberty 2 Dales Action for Refugees350.orgAfrican Equality Foundation Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit ASIRTBaobab Women's Project CICBawsoBen & Jerry's Europe Bristol Refugee RightsBristol Refugee RightsDoncaster Conversation ClubDoncaster Conversation ClubGlobal LinkGood ChanceGreater Manchester Immigration Aid UnitHaref - Connected VoiceHastings Community of SanctuaryHastings Community of SanctuaryIn Limbo ProjectILPAKeep Our NHS PublicLancaster and Morecambe City of SanctuaryLiberal Democrats for Seekers of SanctuaryLiberal Jewish Synagogue Drop-in for Asylum Seeker FamiliesMafwa TheatreMartin Searle SolicitorsLesbian Immigration Support GroupLRMNManchester Refugee Support NetworkMSF UK Take Action GroupMigrant VoiceMigrants OrganiseNAACOMNew Economics FoundationNorth of England Refugee ServiceNorthamptonshire Rights and Equality CouncilPecanPraxisPrivacy InternationalQuakersRight to RemainRunnymede TrustProject 17Redbridge Covid-19 Mutual AidReed In Partnership Refugee Women's CentreSheffield City of SanctuarySOAS Detainee Support Group Southall Black SistersStand For AllStudent Action for RefugeesStudents for Global HealthSydenham COVID-19 19 Mutual AidSYMAAG South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action GroupThe Jewish Council for Racial EqualityUKLGIGWomen for Women Refugees The Unity Projectthe3million AkwaabaAfter Exploitation Another Europe Is Possible Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID)Asylum MattersBail for Immigration DetaineesDocs Not CopsDoctors for the NHSDoctors in UniteDoctors of the WorldEnglish for ActionEvery Child Protected Against TraffickingEvery DoctorFreedom From TortureHackney Migrant CentreHastings Community of SanctuaryHealth Campaigns TogetherHelen Bamber FoundationHousing Action Southwark and LambethHuman Rights Consortium Scotland Manage Cookie Preferences