Ilona Pinter 🧡
Researcher #FamilyFinances @uofglasgow.bsky.social & #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Lover of strangers & islands linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
- I mean it's only a matter of time before a woman without access to cash support living in an asylum hotel support goes into labour and needs to get to hospital. Irresponsible & dangerous policy change.
- An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Hopefully more on this today at the oral evidence session focused on children and young people as part of the Home Affairs Select Committee's inquiry on routes to settlement: committees.parliament.uk/work/9389/ro...
- My written evidence to the HASC focused on children & families & the likelihood that proposed reforms will push more children into poverty or keep them there & increasing material deprivation through ongoing fees rather than investment in children's needs committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
- The penalties on those accessing benefits (which will invariably affect low income families and those in need more) are especially pernicious & create a dangerous precedent for those who need help.
- Despite the good quality of this debate, there's a lack of consideration given to the proposed penalties for access to benefits, which are likely to punish individuals and families unevenly. Families with children & those in need will be discouraged from accessing support.
- Encouraging to see so many MPs raise concerns about the gov's earned settlement reforms & refugee reforms that will inflict harm to children & families especially those on low-income, ppl in need & marginalised groups & pushing more into poverty...
- MP quoting from his constituent - a migrant worker: 'we are needed but never welcomed' parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
