After a six year campaign by asylum tenants G4S – the world’s biggest security company – have lost all of their contracts to run asylum housing. From September 2019 tenants will not have “a prison guard as a landlord”.

The new 10 year £4 billion Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract has been given to Serco, Clearsprings and the Mears Group. Mears Group will be operating the contract in Yorkshire, Humberside and the north east from September 2019. We will be contacting them to remind them that we will continue to work alongside asylum tenants to ensure they are treated with dignity and respect and provided with decent housing. Home Office announcement of the new contracts is here:
www.gov.uk/government/news/new-asylum-accommodation-contracts-awarded

We will publish a detailed response to the announcement of the new contract soon.

In the meantime listen to John Grayson from SYMAAG interviewed on Sheffield Live on G4S getting dumped from the asylum housing contract and our small part in that success here:
web.sheffieldlive.org/g4s-loses-contract-to-house-asylum-seekers-in-sheffield/

Stuart Crosthwaite
Joint Secretary, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)

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