The asylum system as it stands is inefficient, non-person-centred, under-resourced and under attack. For someone looking from the outside in, the process should be simple: A person claims asylum, they are supported while they are doing so, a fair decision is made. If the person is granted asylum they go on to have a safe and fulfilled life. If a person is not granted asylum they are supported to look at other options to stay in the UK or to leave because they are safe. Unfortunately this is far from how the system works in reality.

The trauma and injustice faced by many people who receive a negative decision on an asylum claim goes to the heart of why NACCOM members first came together as a network - wanting to see change for people being failed and left destitute by the asylum system. We believe that no-one should face homelessness and destitution, and that the process of claiming
asylum should be fair, compassionate, just and dignified. For too many people this is not their experience, and the powerful voices of lived experience we hear in this report lay bare this reality.